halloween

Okay, these first few are from before Halloween. Colin just looked so cute in his hand-me-down winter coat that I couldn't resist taking a picture. As always, he's walking right toward me because he wanted the camera.

He also looked cute jammed into his carseat in that big pouffy coat.

We had two options for a Halloween costume, both of which were hand-me-downs from cousins. Option #1 was a bear. I thought it likely he would catch a chill if I let him out of the house dressed like this, so we went with

Option #2, a pumpkin. I was surprised that he kept it on the whole time we were at the trunk-or-treat.

He had a great time running around the parking lot, saying "Hi," and "Boo!" Nate said he also liked chasing the cars. (Nate was in charge of following him around. I was in charge of sitting at the car.)

I dressed up too. Can't you tell? I had a lava-lava and a shell necklace, so I was super tropical and stuff. Basically that was the only costume that was going to fit me. Colin and Nate came over and helped hand out the candy when the kids finally started coming around. Colin got a little whiney then because we were giving his candy to other kids and not to him.

Since trunk-or-treat only lasted 30 minutes we headed over to Granny and Papa's house to let them see Colin in his costume. Justin and Diana Dye were there with their precious daughter/lion, Sarah. And we ran into Luke McCausland, one of Nate's high school classmates, and his family in front of the Silvey's house too. The McCauslands had a little boy about Colin's age who was dressed as a dragon. I got Colin out of the car and set him down, and the little boy came up and smiled at Colin—who promptly burst into tears. I don't know what upset him so much, but he was not happy and needed to go inside and get a hug from his granny. The kid didn't touch him or take his candy or anything. It was weird. Colin also seemed a little upset with the candy bowl at Granny's. He would whine and walk around it when it was on the floor. Strange kid.

I started my new calling as the Junior Primary pianist today, which was fun. I like being in Primary still but not having to teach lessons anymore. The Primary president, Sister J, was pointing out to the kids that I was playing the piano now instead of teaching, and she said this: "Sister Silvey used to teach the CTR 5 class, but she's going to have a baby soon so we slid her over here (gesturing to the piano) because she needed a bigger bench to sit on." Good one, Sister J. The kids didn't really get it, but the other adults and I had a pretty good laugh.

Also, we made DeAnna's alfredo sauce again today. We used the heavy cream instead of the half and half (Nate's idea), and it turned out delicious again. I also made homemade breadsticks, per Nate's request. He really enjoyed his dinner, but he was sad that he couldn't eat as much as he wanted because his stomach had shrunk from fasting all day (plus an extra hour because of the time change). I was sad because I could eat as much as I wanted, and it made me cringe inside to even think about what and how much I was eating.