Happy Halloween!

We love Halloween in this house, and were very excited for Hayden's first celebration of the holiday. But first, we had an adults only party! On Friday night we dropped Hayden off with our good friends, the Bakers, who were all too excited to watch him for our night out. We headed to a pub on post that we'd decorated earlier in the day and set up with lots of yummy food and treats. Several other couples and some single soldiers attended as well, and we had a blast! Good food, pictures, music and costumes made for a really fun night. Hayden had a great time with the Bakers, and has a new best friend in their dog Harley.

Our late Friday night meant we got to sleep in a little on Saturday. We headed to post to take Hayden's Halloween picture and grab some lunch. I love his Hulk costume and it's so easy to get on him so we didn't mind putting it on a few times. Halloween night we met our friends to go trick or treating on post at 6 and walked around for about an hour and a half. Hayden always gets confused when he's all bundled up but he was a champ in his stroller. He's too little for candy but we trick or treated at a few places and put candy in his fun Halloween bag for us to later enjoy. We tried to get a few pics of the kids inside but Hayden wanted nothing to do with it. It's a rough life for a baby!

After trick or treating we headed to the bowling alley where games were free if you were in costume. It's so much fun feeding Hayden now that he can eat real food and really enjoys feeding himself. He has grown very anti-bottle lately, only wanting to drink a few ounces of formula here and there so we decided he was close enough to his first birthday to try some milk. Boy is this going to be fun! He doesn't care for it at all, since it's not nearly as sweet as formula. We're trying some things to get him to like it (mixing it with formula, warming it) but so far he just spits it out. It's pretty funny to watch. But he didn't like juice or water in the beginning either, so eventually we'll prevail and hopefully he'll be a milk drinker like his parents!