Trick or Treat!

We had a fun filled few days! Like most holidays, we celebrated for 3 days at our house. On the Saturday before Halloween, we went to the Buford Corn Maze which is only a few minutes from our house. (Collin was so excited this year to watch the corn from the time it started growing to the time the maze opened since we drive by it almost every day!) This year, they had added so much and the kids both had a blast!

We started in the corn maze, but we didn't get very far. There were 6 checkpoints we were supposed to find. We found #1 on purpose. Then we found #4 and #6 on accident when we were trying to find the EXIT. Between us being unable to read the map, my awful sense of direction, and Katelyn wanting to "balk" (walk) the whole time, we were a little slow.
Next up...hayride! Katelyn wasn't sure of it at first and she reminded me that I needed to cut her fingernails ASAP. (She has this new habit of digging her nails into my hands when she's nervous.) She relaxed after a few minutes and was ok. Probably both of their favorite parts...the sweet cow. We had to go back and tell her bye. She was the reason we couldn't get Collin to walk to the car. He keeps talking about her every time we drive by the maze, and he told me he wishes we could have a pet cow. He said he wants her to play in the backyard with him like Rylee. Little miss fearless picking some grass to feed to the cow.They loved the "cornbox"!And they had to ride the ponies. Had we not had a close eye on Katelyn, she would have been inside the gate with these ponies by herself. On Sunday, it was time for pumpkin carving! Collin still wants very little to do with the "stuff" inside the pumpkin, but he enjoyed instructing Daddy on what the face should look like. As usual, Katelyn had no fear of the yucky, slimy, pumpkin.Katelyn got a little bored waiting on Daddy to carve the pumpkin.Halloween started off with fall parties for both kiddos at school. They had a pumpkin patch, hayride, trick or treating, and yummy lunches!Katelyn headed to her party. It made me feel proud to see her so excited to walk to her classroom!While Katelyn napped that afternoon, Collin made his Buzz Lightyear pumpkin and Katelyn's Elmo pumpkin.Finally, it was trick or treat time! Collin made it through almost the whole neighborhood (really only one long street) before he said he wanted to go home. He did a great job telling everyone thank you this year! Katelyn stuck with him the whole time too and caught on to the idea quickly. After every house, she pointed at her pumpkin and told me "more treat".