Chicago and Halloween (Better late than never!)

The weekend before Halloween, we flew up to Chicago to see Nick's family.  His grandmother has a place in this community called Woodsmoke, and they do all kinds of fall/Halloween things.  It was great for Mason to get to be a part of what Nick did as a kid, and to see Nick's family that we don't see very often!

Mason enjoyed playing in the leaves!  Since Chicago has a real fall, there were leaves everywhere!  Nick made a small pile for Mason to play in, and then taught him to throw them in the air...it was so cute!

My Aladdin and Abu before we started Trick or Treating!

Mason was so cute waving hi and bye like he was in a parade!

Nick's mom made all of our costumes.  The boys' turned out great; however, don't judge mine.  It was in the 40's so I had to wear the thermal underneath eventhough it looks ridiculous.

He was the cutest little monkey!  And, yes, his costume is starting to come off, but considering he wore it for a good 2 hours and smiled for pictures, I was one happy mama!

Plus, how cute is this little town?  We had a great trip!

Fall...

Fall is by far my favorite season!  Plus, I love that Mason is getting older and having more fun during fall activities.

Mason just had to have a pumpkin from Target so we let him paint his very own pumpkin.

At some point the pumpkin did get painted, but he seemed to have more fun painting himself and the patio!  He threw his biggest tantrum to date when we took the paintbrush away and cleaned him up.

Then, of course, we went to the pumpkin patch!  He was over pictures before I even started.  However, we still had fun, and I did get a few good ones out of him.

Clearly, he is over his mama taking so many pictures.

Way more interested in sticks than anything else!

I wish the weather here would get cooler and stay that way.  My boy is going to grow out of his winter clothes before he ever gets to wear them!  Hopefully, there will be more posts to follow while my sick baby naps. I love being home to spend the day with him, but I wish it wasn't because he was sick.