October 31st, 2004

Happy Halloween! Landon crawled his way through his first Halloween today. His costume to celebrate this first event was shockingly enough, a little blue fish outfit. He looked absolutely hilarious, although I’m sure if Halloween had been a week later he wouldn’t have fit into the suit, we had to squeeze him pretty tight to slip between those blue fins and scales. We went to a Halloween party at the Schoen’s this afternoon, and albeit a biased one, in my opinion Landon had the coolest costume there, every time I’d set him down and he’d start to crawl across the floor, his big blue tail would flop back and forth, and I couldn’t help but laugh. Truth be told, it was a hot day, and Landon only lasted for about 30 minutes in his costume under the hot October sun.

Unfortunately Landon’s Halloween wasn’t all smiles and sparkling fish scales - in fact it was filled with more tricks than treats. Last night Landon vomited all over his crib, and again he ejected hot, recently swallowed breakfast all over his Dad this morning. He seemed in good spirits, and he didn’t have a fever so we took him to the Halloween party hoping for the best. But Landon decided to cover the back lawn with his lunch, so we decided the best place for him was back at home and left the party early. We had planned on taking Landon around the neighborhood with our neighbor’s kids, I was going to dress as a fisherman, and of course he would play the role of the trophy catch, but due to his questionable health, Landon spent his first Halloween indoors with his parents. We did carve a big pumpkin though, and one of the trick-or-treater’s parents commented on what a perfect jack o’ lantern it was, which was nice to hear.

The whole family has been sick all week, Rhiannon and I much worse than Landon thankfully, so we are all tuckered out and will be going to bed early tonight thanks to the time change. Hopefully next Halloween will be filled with more candy for our little fish.