Valentines Day

"Getting" holidays is fun!  We trick or treated this last Halloween for the first time ever.  We had a Christmas tree with light and all and loved it this year.  And for Valentines Day for the first time ever he participated by writing in his best effort a "C" on each and every card.  Even carefully selected the stickers he wanted on cards for specific friends.  I helped him to deliver these cards this morning in the traditional brown bag taped to the edge of surface for collection.  So cute and so fantastic that he his "Getting" it.

Trick or Treat

Years past have been a disappointment for me with a great deal of heart ache - just me not Christopher.  He has never really understood or cared about Halloween like most kids do.  Last year he enjoyed handing out candy on the porch at Mema's house (now gone, :-( from the tornado) and enjoyed seeing the monsters and creature that came to collect their treats.  That was fun, but still I felt sad for him because I felt like he was missing out.  He was happy though and I resigned myself to this was my issue not his.  After all he was just thrilled with observing. 

Well we missed the official Halloween outing thanks to no power from snow storm but town selectmen post poned tilll this past Saturday.  Since he doesn't yet have a great concept of days and events he didn't realize that he missed Halloween - so as far as he knew we were game on. 

The town did a great job to prepare for this yearly outing!  Cross guards at all the cross walks, and glow necklaces handed out by officers to all the kids.  How nice!  Thank You!

SO - this year!  He was a pirate!  AND we went trick or treating with a group of 9 kids and he had a blast!  He even is quiet protective of his candy bag in all the appropriate ways that kids hoard their loot!

Seems to me like a major information super highway has come online in his little head and there seems to be no end in sight for the growth we are whitnessing!