Poseidon and the dragon

With the excitement of Finn walking this week, I never reported on the boys' Halloween antics. As the title of the post suggests, Caden dressed up as Poseidon. He has devoured Rick Riordan's books featuring Percy Jackson and heroes of Greek and Roman mythology over the past year. He wanted to trick-or-treat as Percy, but we decided that it wouldn't be a very exciting costume. Caden therefore dressed as Percy's dad instead:

Finn's costume created a bit of a last-minute dilemma. Given his propensity for mischief, we had planned - right up to the day of Halloween - to have him dress as Max from Where the Wild Things Are. We still have the awesome wolf suit that Mama made for Caden. However, we had forgotten that Caden dressed as Max on his 3rd Halloween, and the costume was too big for Finn. This necessitated a last-minute rush to the costume shop, where Mama found a very cute dragon suit:

The boys trick-or-treated all over our neighborhood, finally returning to our house well after 9pm. Many of Caden's friends wanted to trick-or-treat with him, so we ended up taking a circuitous route that passed by all of their houses.

The day after Halloween, we went over to Boopa's cousin's house in Huntington Beach for a Day of the Dead harvest party. While there, Finn made a new friend:

Last Sunday, Caden participated in a service activity with his Cub Scout pack. They built bluebird nesting boxes to be placed in local parks:

And Finn is not only walking with more and more confidence - he can now cross the entire width of the house - but he is talking more every day. Here's his current list of words:

Bye bye

Hi

Mama

Dada

Bubba = Brother

Nana = Banana = Food

Vroom vroom

Digger

Ball

Yay

Uh-oh

Up

Milk

Baby

Whoa

Dog

Cat

Roar

Bird

Night night

Bath

Boat

This

Light

More

Box

No