Our small hometown has a Halloween Parade every year where the high school and junior high bands play music, there are Halloween floats, kids and adults dressed up in their costumes and of course, Jake's favorite, the police and fire trucks with their lights and sirens on. They start the parade with fireworks, then the paraders walk and throw candy to the kids on the sides of the streets. Jake is still learning to be assertive and to run and grab for the candy when it is thrown. His strategy is to hold his basket out in the hopes that someone will put candy in it. It worked a couple of times ; ) One picture, he wasn't too happy, one of the little girls kept telling him his glow stick wasn't his- so sensitive ; )
Grandpa and Grandma G came here for a little visit. We visited the apple orchard, played pirates, read books and Jake had fun with a new train clock they received from Grandma and Grandpa.