Colby had a very exciting weekend last week. Friday night we took him to Boo at the Zoo. We have never been before. I have been wanting to go since his first Halloween when he was 3 months old. We waited though until we felt he was old enough to enjoy it so it would be worth the money spent. He wore his Superman costume and looked so cute! He was very excited about going to the zoo at night. When we got there we took him to the toddler area first. He played a few of the games and won a few prizes. We were going to take him on the train next but we found out that it wasn't really appropriate for his age...very dissapointing! I thought this thing was geared towards young kids so I felt like they should have had a scary/nonscary train ride. Anyway we let him play on the playground instead. We joked that we could have just brought him to a park in his costume and he would have known no different! After letting him play for awhile we decided to go check out the food. We all shared chicken tenders, fries, and jambalaya. After we ate we brought him to the Trick or Treat lane. He really liked this part. He racked up on candy and quickly learned to say "Trick or Treat" and "thankyou". I think he just liked going up to all the little houses. I had promised him a chocolate bar if he wore his costume so as soon as we finished up at the houses I had to dig out a piece of chocolate for him. That's really the only candy he knows about or likes. After all that we went around the next area that had inflatables and games set up. He got to do an inflatable slide. Then we took him to the Lowe's tent where they could build things. He got into it for a little but really just wanted to hammer the table he didn't care so much about the "project". Needless to say we didn't get the project completed. We promised him another round on the playground so that is where we ended the evening. He ran around for about 20 minutes. I think he enjoyed playing in the dark in his Superman costume! On our way out we saw some owls that they were showing the kids. Colby really liked that. For some reason he always talks about owls and hearing them at night...
It was a fun evening and I am glad we did it. Things I learned though I probably wouldn't bring a child younger then Colby b/c there didn't seem like a whole lot to do for the toddler age group. Plus I don't feel like a child younger then 3 would even get it. I was a little dissapointed that they didn't offer more non-scary things. But all in all it was a great evening. We couldn't have asked for better weather. It was also nice just to do something special the 3 of us. I'm sure we will go back...I kinda doubt we would bring Lindsay next year if we do go although it would be fun to see them both dressed up!
Saturday was a pretty low key day for us...thankgoodness after the business of the week! We decided to stay around the house most of the day other then getting out to vote. It was nice to kinda relax and not go anywhere. Colby had a Halloween Party that night at his friend Max's house so we were saving up our energy for that! We went to the party around 5ish. She had a jump thing, bobbing for apples, music, and a firepit. It was again a beautiful evening. Colby enjoyed running around in her backyard. There were about 4 other friends from their school there. We stayed about an hour and a half. Colby also enjoyed eating pizza and cookies! I thought it was so neat of Honey (Max's mom) to host something like this! I think the party was going to go until well past 7 but we left around 7ish. USM was playing on tv and Austin was home so we wanted to get home and spend time with him! Colby had a blast though. The holidays are getting to be so much fun...I mean they are always fun with kids even since he was a baby but now that he's older and can understand and has all these little parties and things its so fun!
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