Halloween 2011!

Again this year the week before Halloween Morgan went with her preschool on a field trip to the pumpkin patch. This year's trip fell on a Tuesday, so Grandma and Grandpa offered to take Morgan (a parent must attend in order for the child to go). She picked out a nice Morgan-sized pumpkin for us to carve and keeping with tradition we waited until the Saturday before to carve it with the Johnson Family.

Matt, Georgia, and Lucas all came down for a little dinner and pumpkin carving. This year both of the kids were more into it and enjoyed telling their dads what shapes to draw.

Morgan telling her daddy what kind of face she wanted.

Then it was time to dig out the "guts." Morgan did a great job with it this year.

While Morgan added more seeds to the bowl Lucas was busy "cook" ing.

Then Morgan decided she would help Lucas cook. She kept saying "let's make pumpkin pie!"

Once they were all complete we had to light them up.

On the actual day of Halloween we went down to the Johnson's house for a little dinner and then some trick or treating. Morgan was SO excited. This year she could finally very clearly say Trick or Treat and she practiced the whole way down to Aunt Georgia and Uncle Matt's house. In fact, by about half-way down the block Georgia could hear her coming because she was shouting so loud "Aunt Georgia, I'm coming! I go Trick or Treating!"

This year Morgan choose to be Ladybug Gir.l from one of her new favorite book series Ladybug Gir.l. She really loves the sequel to the original called Ladybug Gir.l and Bumble.bee Boy in which she meets a little boy at the park who becomes a member of the bug squad. She likes it so much that she convinced her daddy to dress-up that night as Bumble.bee Boy (he wore a collared yellow shirt with stripes). I meant to get a picture.

Morgan was very popular in our neighborhood that night. We ran into a few friends from preschool and two of the paraprofessionals who work at her preschool. We also made a special stop at Miss Mikelle's house (one of my co-workers).

Miss Mikelle of course had a very special treat for both Morgan and Lucas. Inside was a glow necklace which Morgan instantly decided had to be her magic wand.

One of Luke's new favorite games when he is hanging with his buddy Morgan is to grab on the back of her wheelchair and try to keep up when she is driving full speed. We keep telling him in another year or so we will teach him how to catch a ride on the back. When we (the parents) were all tuckered out from Trick or Treating we made one last stop at our house so Morgan could give Luke a treat.
They are the best of buds and we are so lucky to have such close friends nearby.
Morgan always calls Lucas her "best buddy."