Halloween Carnival

We went to a Halloween carnival last weekend. (I like this idea better than door-to-door as we don't really know which neighborhoods are okay and which aren't.) It was difficult to get everyone excited at the same time, but we toughed it out and had a good time.

The best part for me was Bobbing for Apples. Kyler was the first to go...He choose an apple with a long stem and tried to bite it. The trouble was...he is missing one of his front bottom teeth! And the other one is loose! The task seemed impossible. We kept telling him to push it down with his face and bite it. So he pushed it down with his chin and tried to bite it. But it kept bobbing up too fast to get a bite. Finally he did get it! He was happy!

Little Zoey was next. She didn't understand at all what she was supposed to do, but she tried anyway. Somehow, she did latch onto an apple and pulled it out of the water. She was happy!

Finally it was Jake's turn. He wanted to go for one with a long stem like Kyler did, but he just couldn't get to one. I made him pick one and stick with it--rather than slobbering over all the apples. He had some trouble, but finally he stuck his face in the water and pushed the apple to the bottom and sunk his teeth into it. It was so funny! His shirt was wet, his hair was wet--but he got the apple! What a fun time it was!