Halloween 2014

For Halloween this year we dressed up as Brooke’s favorite character – Curious George.  I was the Man in the Yellow Hat with my lovely wife Mrs. Yellow Hat and our baby banana. Thursday evening we went to library Halloween party and trick or treating inside the library.  Friday morning Laura took the kids to Stroller Strides for stroller trick or treating after class.  Then we had a great time officially trick or treating in the neighborhood that night.  This is the best street we’ve ever lived on and every neighbor was sitting in their driveway (even the ones without children) on lawn chairs with bowls of candy to give the kids.  Two houses were decorated as haunted houses with sounds effects, and many more were decorated in a family friendly fall scarecrow fashion.  It was a great time to socialize with our neighbors. Brooke enjoyed the spoils of her night as the cutest monkey on the block.

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Playing in the Leaves

Today I cleaned up the leaves in the yard with Brooke’s help.  Alex even came and joined us for a bit.  Brooke loved jumping and climbing in the leaves, and even sharing them with Alex.  As you can see, Brooke is getting ready for Halloween by carrying her trick-or-treat basket with her.

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The Great Dismal Swamp

For a little over four years now we’ve been trying to go see the lake inside of the Great Dismal Swamp.  Well, we finally made it today.  It was a nice family outing and seeing such calm water was very cool, almost bordering on creepy.  On the way home Brooke sang to us all.  For the first half of the first video Laura kept the camera down so as to not have Brooke’s “stage fright” set in.

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