Our Little Lion Cub

Our little lion put on quite a show for Halloween. Sisters has this darling little trick or treat parade for all the little ones in town. It is at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and most of the merchants in town participate by dressing up and handing out candy to the kiddos in their costumes. It takes about an hour to walk through and trick or treat and it was all I could do to keep Bryant awake. It was a beautiful day, almost 60 degrees, perfect to be out and about. Bryant was accompanied by his two friends, Madison and Zoe, who are twin girls born 2 days before he was. You'll see the three of them all dressed as animals, Madison is the Monkey and Zoe is the Giraffe. We joked that we had Noah's Ark in stroller, it was adorable.

I think by far Bryant's favorite thing about Halloween was the pumpkins, he was fascinated by them. The pumpkins were expertly carved by Jeremy and I, Jeremy carved the Jeep (on the chair) and Noah's Ark (bottom right) and I carved the smiley face.

Bryant and I worked for three days to perfect the Lion Roar that would need to accompany his costume and he got it down pretty good, but as with all cute things that kids do, they never want to do it on command. I think I did a pretty good job of capturing his roar on the video. The roar slightly resembles a cough, but nevertheless, he is very proud of himself!! We also worked on Boo, but it sounds a lot more like Ba. :-)

Not only did Bryant have his first experience with trick or treating and pumpkins, but I am pretty sure he is still coming down off a sugar high. That's right, Bryant had candy, and actually quite a lot of it. It is safe to say that he enjoys candy (I think he must take after his mommy!!)

At the end of the day, Bryant's cousins Hudson and Bevyn came by so we could see their costumes. Bryant was totally fine with their costumes, as long as Hudson didn't have his mask on. Hudson was a Ninja warrior and Bevyn was Cinderella. You'll see in the picture Bryant running towards the camera crying and Hudson off to the right with his mask on. As soon as Hudson took off the mask, Bryant was a happy camper.
Most of the pictures and video don't show it very well, but Bryant's face is pretty scraped up. He fell into a closet door the night before Halloween and then he fell on the sidewalk getting ready to go trick or treating and scraped up his nose. Not to mention this morning he fell off a step stool and went nose first to the floor. Poor little fella, I guess that's all in the day of a one year old!