The Great Spider is on Parade

Here's Daddy again. He wants to talk about my Spider parade.

In the last post, I told you that I'm a big Halloween fan. The following pictures help explain why. Graham and his preschool class paraded in their costumes on Thursday morning and Graham showed off his spider costume. He is quite a parader.

Here is a picture of Graham the spider and the rest of the paraders. Graham was too interested in looking at the other costumes and wouldn't look at the camera.

Here is a close-up view of the parader....

What does Graham have in his bag? Any suckers?

Bird and the pumpkin came to watch the spider and the rest of the parade....

In the last post, we talked about the Trunk and Treat -- Graham dressed up as a spider for the Trunk and Treat. He really liked this car because the candy was suckers. He wanted to pick up the suckers off the ground and he didn't see the hand sticking out of the trunk. It made him jump when the hand grabbed at the suckers in Graham's hand.

Graham had his face painted at the fall festival at the Trunk and Treat. He wanted a spider because he was dressed as a spider. He sat really still and the lady did a great job with the face paint.

One of the "trunks" was a decorated motorcycle. Graham was fascinated by the skeleton toy -- when he pulled on the toy, the skeleton would "chatter." He pulled the skeleton over and over again and we had to finally pull him away from the motorcycle. I hope this isn't a sign...

Graham played some of the carnival games at the Trunk and Treat's fall festival. One of the games was "bowling" with a pumpkin stuffed animal and Graham picked some funny glasses as his prize. And he wanted his picture taken with his glasses on.

Graham tried to trade his spider hat for one of the hats on the decorated pumpkins -- but the hat wouldn't fit.

Happy Halloween everyone!

My Favorite Pumpkin

Daddy will be today's guest author. He wants to talk about his favorite pumpkin -- I call her Sissie.

Graham's dad here -- Halloween is one of my favorite times and has been ever since I was little. I liked to wear costumes, play tricks (mostly on my sisters), and as most people who know me know well, to get free candy. It was the one time of year that my mom (Mimi as she is now known) would let me eat candy, although we had to ration it out to last a month or so.

As I "grew up," I continued to enjoy Halloween and all the craziness that surrounds it.

Now that I am a parent, Halloween continues to be one of my favorite times of year, and my favorite little pumpkin only reinforces that for me. Lena dressed up as a pumpkin this year. And while she is still tiny, and she can't trick or treat, her smile has me hooked. She's my favorite little girl and my favorite pumpkin. . . enjoy the pictures!

The pictures are from our Church's Trunk and Treat last Saturday. Cousin Nate joined us at the Trunk and Treat and I got a couple of great pictures of Nate in his skeleton costume.

Here are two more pictures of my favorite pumpkin.

Have a happy and safe Halloween!

The Bear and the Hat

A couple of weeks ago, we went to Big Cedar on the lake (Table Rock) to celebrate Doll's birthday. They had some pretty pumpkins and some hay bales outside, so Daddy decided to take a few pictures of me for "fall." The restaurant had a couple of really cool stuffed bears that still have all of their fur and teeth. Here is a picture of me and the bear -- and I put my hand in his mouth. Although he didn't hurt me, he's still scary.

Great-Grandad came to Big Cedar for Doll's birthday lunch too. He let me borrow his hat. Don't I look cool in Great-Granddad's hat?

More Goblin (Harrison) Fun

At Great-Granddad's football game, I got to sit with Uncle Phil and Nate. We had so much fun. I didn't want to sit with Daddy, so when he was holding me I would squirm and yell, "down." The football players thought I was trying to call out a play...
Before the football game ceremonies, I threw a football with Granddad in the parking lot. That was before I ate my hamburger too. The football is Daddy's -- he said cheerleaders used to throw the footballs in the stands in high school and PaPa caught one and gave it to Daddy after his game.

It was also senior day at Harrison High School for the football players, band, and cheerleaders. I wanted to be a part of Senior day so Great-Granddad held me in front of all the seniors.

Here is a picture of Sissie with Aunt Nancy. Sissie was dressed up in her abominable snowman outfit.

I had lots of fun in Harrison. I hope I get to go back real soon!

Great-Granddad's Special Day

Last Friday, Mommy, Daddy, Lena and I went down to Harrison, Arkansas for Great-Granddad Cash's special day. Great-Granddad used to be a football player for the Harrison Goblins in Harrison, Arkansas, and they gave him an award at a dedication before last Friday's football game. Doll, Granddad, Nate, Aunt Nancy, Uncle Phil, Aunt Connie, and Cousin Aaron were all at the game with Great-Granddad and Nanny. We got to go out on the field as honorary captains -- and I got to stand right behind the football players when the referees flipped the coin. It was soooooo much fun....

The best part of the night, other than being a "captain," was that I got to eat a hamburger from the fed-ex grill and I dipped my hamburger in red (ketchup) and yellow (mustard) dip....

Great-Granddad has a really cool letterman's jacket and a hat that says he is an "Old Time Goblin." Thank you Great-Grandad for letting us be part of your special day!

Calling the Hogs

Woo Pig Sooie! Last Saturday, Daddy and Graddad took me to my first football game. It was an Arkansas football game. They were playing the gators. All I know is that the Arkansas team (I think Daddy called them the Razors) wore red uniforms and the Gators had on blue pants. I know this because I am learning my colors. Daddy and I wore our red shirts and I got to ride in the backpack on the walk into the stadium.

Granddad let me use his fun noisemaker. It was like the ones that the cheerleaders had, but much littler. Granddad even held my noisemaker for me.

I wore Granddad's hat for a few minutes. I liked it at first, but then I started trying to take it off.
Here's a picture of me and Granddad before we left his house. Doll made Razorback shaped cookies with red icing and sent a thermos of milk. Granddad drinks almost as much milk as I do!

When we got to the game, I rode on my car in the parking lot for a few minutes before we walked into the game. Daddy was really worried that I wouldn't want to stay in my seat...

But the game was a lot of fun. The Arkansas team didn't do very good though. This picture is right before the only play where they scored a touchdown. After they scored, a big cannon went off and everybody started yelling and clapping and saying Woo Pig Sooie!!!

Here's a picture of me and Daddy during halftime. The band is in the background and I called them the "horns."

I made a new friend at the football game. His name was Ethan and he had a temporary tatoo that was shaped like a Razorback. He is six. I let him use my megaphone (noisemaker). We had a lot of fun.

I had so much fun at the game that I only asked Daddy to go on one walk. And we made it to the 4th Quarter! I hope I get to go to another Football game soon....

Vacation With MiMi and Auntie Rachel

In my last blog entry, I told you that Mommy and Daddy went on vacation in September. They went somewhere with a beach that starts with a T. I can't remember. Maybe it was Timbucktu... Anyway, while they were gone, Sissie and I stayed with Auntie Rachel and MiMi. MiMi flew all the way from Baltimore to stay with us. And we had soooooo much fun. Here are some pictures from our adventure.

Here is a picture of me with MiMi and Sissie. MiMi doesn't look too tired. It must have been Auntie Rachel's night to have "Lena duty."

One of the boys in my school had a birthday and I got a cool Krispy Kreme hat. Don't I look like a doughnut chef?

Sissie likes her tummy time....

And most importantly, while Mommy and Daddy were gone, MiMi bought me a lawn mower. And every day we played outside and I "mowed" the lawn. Thanks, MiMi. I hope you come stay with us again soon (and you don't even have to buy me anything...).