Our Little Punkin' Head

It seems that we neglected to post on what should be an obvious subject for every baby blog . . . Halloween!  Well, no matter.  Walt remedied that situation today by making his first (and certainly not last) demand of the day:  that he be allowed to wear his pumpkin ("punkin") costume to school.  I started to issue the automatic refusal, but instead, I stopped to think about it.   Why shouldn't a two-year old be allowed to wear an orange sweatsuit with a jack-o-lantern face and green stem on the hood to school on November 12th if he likes?  It's not like he had an important presentation to make or a business dinner to get to pronto after naptime.  Why not?  So, after a healthy breakfast of a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich, he joyfully donned the pumpkin costume once again. 

Sure, we got a few strange looks from the other mommies and daddies during drop-off, but we paid them no mind.  Walt was happy and I had a peaceful start to the day.

So now that Walt has created this natural segue back to Halloween, I'm going to  use the opportunity to shamelessly post two-week old pictures.

This was Walt's first-ever real trick-or-treating experience.  We walked next door to the Kovariks' house, where Walt stopped mid-way up the sidewalk and just stared at Paula holding the bowl of candy like, "What are we doing here?"  We told him to say "trick or treat", which he did, but then just continued standing there.  Finally we urged him closer to the porch and told him to hold out his bag, into which Paula deposited several pieces of candy.  He turned and grinned at us, and then turned back around for another shot at the loot . . . "Trick or treat!"   She was more than happy to oblige his second request.

As he and Josh were walking back from visiting the houses down the street (I was at home giving out candy), I heard this exclamation before I could even see the little candy fiend:  "Let's eat it!"

Walt proved to be just as enthusiastic about giving out candy as receiving it.  He stood on the front porch with fistfuls of Nerds and peanut butter cups yelling at the various kids walking up and down the street, "Hey, you!  You want candy?"