That right there, my friends, is the cutest monster you will probably ever see in your entire life. And this post really only gets cuter.

You see, we went to a ward trunk or treat on Friday. And Tennyson didn’t really get the concept of asking people for candy. That’s okay. We have plenty of time to work on that later. But he really understood the appeal of running around a parking lot in a costume with a pumpkin bucket (it does help that he’s had an ongoing love affair with this pumpkin bucket for about a month now).



It was hard to capture the essence of just how cute this really was because it was so dark outside. Every time he stepped into the light, I tried to get a quick video. Beware. They will make you smile.

And look… me and Mike dressed up too! Mike’s costume looks cool. Mine looks super lame. But I had on some awesome tights that you can’t see in this picture that made it much much cooler.



Anyway. That was Friday. And I started feeling kind of lame because we aren’t actually doing anything to celebrate real Halloween (well, that’s only partially true, Mike and I did get Hocus Pocus to watch after Tennyson goes to bed). So to celebrate real Halloween, Tennyson and I made a sign after his nap. He is quite the artist. And he didn’t even make that big of a mess, which I really appreciated.

 
  

 

My baby is all grown up and in nursery. I almost can’t believe it. But then it also feels like it’s taken forever to get here.

Church was a new experience today. Tennyson even behaved in sacrament meeting. Only once did I have to take him to the lobby (and then outside because he noticed the big doors that led to a sidewalk and screamed until I opened them).

I think he was just fine with nursery. He cried when we dropped him off. And he cried because we were too slow to get him. But he found the time to color us a pretty picture, so it must not have been that bad.

I didn’t cry at all. Neither did Mike. It was just too nice. I liked getting dressed this morning knowing I was getting dressed to go to church and not getting dressed to walk around in a hallway for three hours.
I think we’ll all get used to this nursery thing.

Tennyson has this new obsession. With the outdoors.

Anytime he sees me or Mike go outside, he begins throwing a fit because he is not outside with us. He’ll stand on his tip toes reaching for the doorknob. He’ll try to push our storm door open. He’ll scream as loud as he has to until we let him go outside.

While it’s plenty annoying that I can’t even peek my head out the door to grab the mail without a full on meltdown ensuing, it is nice that he’s been making us go outside more. The weather is gorgeous. I couldn’t live without the fall.

(mike took that picture at the park today. it really is gorgeous here.)

Besides, when you hear him laughing and running around, you kind of forget about the tantrum that made you go outside in the first place.

October is the best month of the year. By far. And Michigan does fall right. It is only in the 40s here. And it is cloudy. The leaves are changing and the pumpkins are coming out.

On October 1st last year, we went to get our pumpkins. We continued the tradition this year. Only Tennyson wasn’t quite as happy about it. Apparently being in cold weather and feeling under the weather does not a happy child make.

When we got home, I pulled out the pictures from last year to compare. I don’t even recognize this little baby:

There is absolutely no denying that Tennyson is now a full blown toddler. Who goes into nursery at the end of THIS MONTH. My little boy is growing up. It’s probably time we stopped referring to him as “the baby”.