Well, Colin's first Halloween was kind of a bust. The plan was to get him dressed as soon as we were both home from work and hit the road for some Halloween adventures. Well. When I picked him up from daycare at 5:15, the lady said he'd been awake since 2:15. Yikes. Baby boy really values his afternoon nap, and he hadn't had one yet. He fell asleep on the way home, and continued his nap on Daddy's chest when we got home so I could run around and get all our stuff ready for the evening.
Rather than getting him dressed in his costume at home, we decided to just let him sleep in the car and change him at Justin's parents' house. We were going to swing by the pastor's house too, but that was out at this point because we were running out of time.
He woke up as Justin handed him to me so I could get him strapped into his car seat. I sat in the back with him so I could feed him a bottle - he was overdue for his normal feeding time at this point. Maybe a block down the road, he started to fuss and I gave him the bottle. He took a sip and then SCREAMED. Immediately, I realized he couldn't breathe out of his nose. My poor baby has still been a little under the weather since catching his first cold last week. I told Justin what was going on and that he really needed his nose sucked out. Of course, we didn't have the aspirator with us. Daddy made a last minute decision to turn around and go home. At the time I was a little bummed, but it turned out to be the best thing, as our little fussy man kept coughing and sneezing throughout the evening. Poor thing.
Oh! And THEN, as I was handing some candy out to trick or treaters, we ran out. Like, in the middle of a group of kids. We only had one bag of fun-size Kit Kats, as we hadn't planned to stay home all evening. Whoops. I had to turn away a little boy dressed as Mario and tell him we were out of candy. I considered giving him the half a bag of Cheetos in the pantry, but figured his mom would frown on that sort of thing. So, we turned out our light, closed the door, and proceeded to do the normal bath & bedtime routine with Colin.
So there you have it. Baby's first Halloween was spent at home, sans costume.
On a more positive note, though, today is day 1 of the 30 day photography challenge. Today's theme is Halloween. Since I didn't get any of Colin, I took a picture of my favorite Halloween decoration instead. This little dude is currently hanging on our door:
Also, on a completely unrelated note, I won a blog giveaway this morning! Melissa at Growing Up Geeky was giving away a Moboleez nursing cover/baby hat, and I entered, thinking of future babies. As many of you know, I'm not nursing now; Colin and I both had a tough time with it. I wholeheartedly plan to try again next time, though, and this adorable nursing cover will certainly be fun to use when the time comes! Thanks, M. :)
More to come!
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