Halloween Boo and Flu

We had a great Halloween at our house. Well, sorta. The day before Halloween, we participated in a parade at Adam's daycare. This was not as huge of a production as it sounds, but all the kids and the daycare workers were dressed in their best Halloween costumes and we toured the offices and school nearby. While I can't really post pictures of the other kids at Adam's daycare, you can take my word for it that there were some cute kiddos!

Here is my sweet scarecrow.


My mom and I took Adam to a Fall Festival that night, which will have to become an annual tradition. I look forward to Adam being old enough to really enjoy all the fun and games.

We didn't really do trick or treat this year, but Adam was dressed in his scarecrow costume again for family that stopped by and for trick or treaters that came to our house.

Our interaction with the first trick or treater went something like this:
Costumed boy: Trick or Treat
Us: Well, hi there. Here ya go (dropping some candy in the bag)
Costumed boy: I'm allergic to peanuts...
Us: Uh...do we have anything that doesn't have peanut butter in it? Oh yeah, the sour patch kids. Here, take this.
Costumed boy: Ok...

Can't say that we really try to accommodate food allergies for trick or treat! This seriously puts some pressure on, you know? I realize food allergies are a serious thing and do not mean to make light of it, but you are going house to house asking for someone else to give you candy, you know? I'm hoping your mom is going to go through your bag and take care of this for me. But cheers to the kid for recognizing it himself, I guess. It just made me chuckle.


I was happy to get some costume time in for Adam because sickness settled in at our house starting Saturday night. Adam had a fever starting that evening through late Monday night, and though his flu test was negative, the doctor still felt like he had to have the flu. So he's been home all week but got secondary infections in both ears, so we were back at the doctor on Friday again. This was all following our scary ER visit due to croup about two weeks before, so we are praying for wellness at our house! He's already perked up after his second day of antibiotics and played much better today.