Friday, October 29 was dress-up/party day at school. Since Hayden wanted to be a pirate this year, I decided to pull out my pirate costume from my Junior year in high school (yes, I like to coordinate our costumes sometimes). Hayden decided not to wear the pirate had at school so he kind of looks like a pirate-biker (two costumes in one). Below is a pic of him in the Halloween Parade at school.
After the parade, the kids went into one of the classrooms and performed some songs for us eager, camera-happy parents.
Hayden has lots of fun friends at school...lucky kiddo!
The next morning I ran the Provo Halloween Half Marathon. Since I did it last year (the inaugural year of this race) I feel like I will have to do it every year. That works for me since it's a pretty fun race--this year there were over 2,500 runners. I decided to dress up as a running Snow White. Below is a pic that my one of my friend's took. It was fun this year because I had a few friends running...always nice to socialize and visit beforehand.
Still waiting for the race to start. We had to ride buses up the Provo Canyon past Sundance and we were fortunate enough to be able to hangout inside of a semi-heated tent.
A lot of people caught me after the race because they wanted to see what the front of my shirt said. Even though I got off to a slow start at the beginning of the race, I managed to get a new PR (1:38). I was pretty excited and surprised, too.
After the race, I got home and ready, went to a late lunch, then headed to my mom's to make mummy dogs (hot dogs wrapped in bread dough, then cooked). We had chili, rolls, and halloween cake for dessert (like we needed the exta sugar). Since the weather was not pleasant during our normal trick-or-treat start time, we hung out and read Halloween stories and played games. I decided not to pressure Hayden because he didn't want to go out right away. Eventually, some trick-or-treaters started showing up and Hayden thought it was fun to pass out candy for awhile. Around 7:30 he finally decided he wanted to go out and try it for himself (well, he let me come too). Now trick-or-treating with Hayden is different from what most kids typically do. There's no rushing from house-to-house, no complaining about what kind of candy he gets, and no lack of socializing. We took our time, admired all the Halloween decorations, and it took Hayden awhile to ring the doorbell at each house because he wanted to read the house numbers, comment on what the doorbell looked like, and check out the decor on the porches. Then after he got the candy from the candy-passer-outer (ya, that's the official title) he would ask them questions (Do you have a dog? Do you have any other pets?). I kept wondering where all this socializing was coming from, but then I realized that I did the same thing. At each house, I also felt the need to converse with people and make a cute or funny comment about something. I guess Hayden comes by it honestly. We were out for about an hour, but that's all it took to fill up Hayden's pirate bucket (some people were handing out handfuls of candy at a time). One house gave him a ton of tootsie rolls, and again, most kids might complain but not Hayden. He exclaimed in his most excited voice, "I love those!" Just a reminder of how special my little guy is and how much I love his fun and unique personality.
Friday, October 29 was dress-up/party day at school. Since Hayden wanted to be a pirate this year, I decided to pull out my pirate costume from my Junior year in high school (yes, I like to coordinate our costumes sometimes). Hayden decided not to wear the pirate had at school so he kind of looks like a pirate-biker (two costumes in one). Below is a pic of him in the Halloween Parade at school.
After the parade, the kids went into one of the classrooms and performed some songs for us eager, camera-happy parents.
Hayden has lots of fun friends at school...lucky kiddo!
The next morning I ran the Provo Halloween Half Marathon. Since I did it last year (the inaugural year of this race) I feel like I will have to do it every year. That works for me since it's a pretty fun race--this year there were over 2,500 runners. I decided to dress up as a running Snow White. Below is a pic that my one of my friend's took. It was fun this year because I had a few friends running...always nice to socialize and visit beforehand.
Still waiting for the race to start. We had to ride buses up the Provo Canyon past Sundance and we were fortunate enough to be able to hangout inside of a semi-heated tent.
A lot of people caught me after the race because they wanted to see what the front of my shirt said. Even though I got off to a slow start at the beginning of the race, I managed to get a new PR (1:38). I was pretty excited and surprised, too.
After the race, I got home and ready, went to a late lunch, then headed to my mom's to make mummy dogs (hot dogs wrapped in bread dough, then cooked). We had chili, rolls, and halloween cake for dessert (like we needed the exta sugar). Since the weather was not pleasant during our normal trick-or-treat start time, we hung out and read Halloween stories and played games. I decided not to pressure Hayden because he didn't want to go out right away. Eventually, some trick-or-treaters started showing up and Hayden thought it was fun to pass out candy for awhile. Around 7:30 he finally decided he wanted to go out and try it for himself (well, he let me come too). Now trick-or-treating with Hayden is different from what most kids typically do. There's no rushing from house-to-house, no complaining about what kind of candy he gets, and no lack of socializing. We took our time, admired all the Halloween decorations, and it took Hayden awhile to ring the doorbell at each house because he wanted to read the house numbers, comment on what the doorbell looked like, and check out the decor on the porches. Then after he got the candy from the candy-passer-outer (ya, that's the official title) he would ask them questions (Do you have a dog? Do you have any other pets?). I kept wondering where all this socializing was coming from, but then I realized that I did the same thing. At each house, I also felt the need to converse with people and make a cute or funny comment about something. I guess Hayden comes by it honestly. We were out for about an hour, but that's all it took to fill up Hayden's pirate bucket (some people were handing out handfuls of candy at a time). One house gave him a ton of tootsie rolls, and again, most kids might complain but not Hayden. He exclaimed in his most excited voice, "I love those!" Just a reminder of how special my little guy is and how much I love his fun and unique personality.
I LOVE your costume!!! Too Cute!!! I REALLY want to do that race next year!!! (actually I really wanted to do it this year ugh.... oh' well!) So you better make sure I get my but in to gear after having this baby!!! Because I want to run it next year with you! - and I'm sure everyone only could read the back of your shirt LOL! BTW how did reg. go for Boston?
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