This weekend was jam-packed with fun festivities for Halloween and Cameron’s birthday. As I sit here to type this, I know I don’t have enough energy, and there are too many pictures, to put it all into one post. So here’s part one of our super fun holiday weekend.
On Saturday we got an early start for Boo at the Zoo, Cameron’s first experience at the popular event, unless you count the time we went five days before he was born. We go to the zoo pretty often since we are members, but this was the first time that we would be bringing our very own gorilla! Cameron loves to read books about gorillas and imitate how they roar and beat their chests, so it seemed like an obvious choice for his Halloween costume. He wasn’t too thrilled about wearing it to a Halloween party we went to earlier this week, but he happily put it on for the zoo, with a tiny bribe of animal crackers.
Cameron is the most adorable gorilla I have ever seen, and I think many of the people at the zoo thought so too! The zoo has lots of trick-or-treat stations set up for Boo at the Zoo, and most of them had at least twelve kids waiting in line to collect their candy. However, Cameron didn’t have much experience with trick-or-treating, or candy either, so he mostly just enjoyed walking around and looking at his favorite animals–all the big ones–elephants, rhinoceroses, and of course gorillas.
As soon as Cameron spotted the carousel, he wanted a ride. Usually I ride with him, but this time Cameron had a special request to ride with Daddy. I think this may have been Andy’s first carousel ride as an adult!
With all the people in costumes and all the extra things to look at all over the zoo, Cameron was exhausted pretty quickly, but the day wasn’t over yet!
A few weeks ago, we went to the pumpkin patch to pick out several pumpkins. They have been decorating our porch but the time had come for pumpkin carving. Cameron wouldn’t stick his hand inside the pumpkin to feel the gooey pumpkin guts, and Andy wasn’t interested in drawing faces on the pumpkins or carving them, so it was all up to me, but I enjoyed carving them and we were all happy with how they turned out. Now we were officially ready for Halloween, which also happens to be the same day as Cameron’s birthday! October 31st was an even bigger day for us, and I will post all about it sometime in the next few days.
