So Jake wasn't so sure about this "costume" thing at first...
but he eventually got into it once we got there...
he does this cute thing lately where when he bursts into a big smile he turns his head away like he's being bashful-it's so cute I can't stand it!
So our game was the haunted pumpkin patch. We spent all weekend (thanks code) blowing up white and orange balloons and drawing ghost or jack-o-lantern faces on them. Though it was a ton of prep work, it was super easy game to manage over-unlike the other games, we didn't have to reset anything or make kids go one at a time. The kids would try to wait in line at our room like the others but we were all: go crazy, you don't have to wait your turns-go pop a balloon and come get a treat. It was so funny tho, kids would ask: "how?" You're asking me HOW TO POP A BALLOON??? what kind of childhood are you having?! um....stomp on it, sit on it, lay on it, use your nails-go crazy kids! haha
I def think our game was the scariest game of the bunch-some of the lil ones just wanted to play in the balloons rather than pop them and it was funny to watch the adults walk by holding their ears and wincing in anticipation. One balloon popped so loud everyone walking up and down the hall jumped/and ducked. You'd think there was a drive-by haha.
By the end we told the boys who kept coming back for more to just go crazy and pop the rest-it took .5 secs, and then I told the kids to take the rest of the candy holding out the bag-yeah...it was like a feeding frenzy :)
Needless to say Jake didn't like being by our loud game too much so he made some new friends with Sherry Bogdan and Allison Wischmeier who kept him safe from the loud pops
There were some pretty cute costume ideas that I'll have to keep for the future:
I especially liked the themed family ideas like the Loudins-their three kids came as fruit. I didn't manage a picture of their littlest one but she was a strawberry :)
Julie Woodall had the cutest skeleton shirt on that also showed her soon to be baby girl :)
There were tons of games as well-seriously, if I were a kid I'd have gone crazy with it all. Along with the hot dog dinner in the cultural hall there was the pick the nose game- some of the girls seemed to shy away from this one but the boys were not shy...
Then in the classrooms around the building there was:
glow-n-the dark tic tac toe
this really cool life-size version of operation (I had a better pic of it but it won't sync for some reason):
There was also a bean bag game, fishing for treats game, and a cupcake walk but I didn't get good pics of those, and some amazing face painting:
By the end of the night allison brought jake back and he was completely passed out haha. It's so funny but I totally think he is an introvert like code and me. I guess it could just be cause he's 3 months old, but really he shuts down around tons of people and excitement. Even when my visiting teachers and their kids come over and he just sits in my lap and watches the kids play he gets wiped out. Some kids just feed off the excitement and eat it up but not him.
Yes, our picture taking was probably overkill but what do you want? It was Jake's first halloween haha
I LOVE this pic hahahaha, Jake is SO not enjoying himself and I so obviously am (he had just woken up):
Then we all moved outside for the trunk or treating. I'm pretty sure Jake's costume was meant for places that actually get cold for halloween (understandably) so he seemed to perk up a little once we went out into the cold air, but he was still tired and obviously over the whole experience. He just kept leaning into Cody as if to say: protect me from all the craziness!
he's so cute it kills me!
Happy Halloween Jake-you are the cutest batman EVER (and that's really saying something in looking at past batmans). Thank you to the Jeppsens for the awesome costume!
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