We’ve gone to the Maryland Zoo’s Zoo Boo event every year since Nathan was born. They set up booths with food and games and some local sponsors and then the kids can trick-or-treat at each place, and then you get to enjoy a day at the zoo in costume! Some years we’ve gone with friends but this year it was just us.

Check out Nathan at Zoo Boo over the years…

A Cow (6 months)

A Lion (18 months)

A Dinosaur (2 1/2 years)

Woody! (3 1/2 years)

Here are pictures from our visit this year.

After trick-or-treating and watching part of a puppet show, we headed down to the zoo. It’s a little bit of a walk from the entrance to the zoo itself, but we opted not to take the tram, so Nathan got a ride.

We opted to skip the main part of the zoo this time and stayed in the Maryland Wilderness and petting zoo areas. Lots of stuff to climb on, and in, and Nathan always loves the goats.

(He’s got a brush in his hand in this picture)

More pictures from Zoo Boo here

Fall and Halloween galore! Pumpkins farms, Halloween celebrations, costumes…October was full of all that.

Nathan’s school went on a field trip to a pumpkin farm. Here he is with two best buds, Phoenix and Caitlin. (Gary and I didn’t go, but one of the other parents snapped this for us)

Then we took our annual trip to Webers Farm.

He was mining for gemstones here

Hayride!

On the front steps of our new house

Nathan trying on his Woody Halloween costume for the first time. He was SO excited about it. We ended up with Woody two costumes and he actually wore a different one for trick-or-treating.

Here we are at a different pumpkin farm, on their hayride. If I’m remembering correctly, Nathan took this photo, and I love it!

This pumpkin farm had a couple corn mazes and a big pumpkin patch that you could walk through.

We painted pumpkins for Halloween. The paint pretty much all peeled off once it dried, but it was a fun project anyway!

Here’s me at 33 weeks pregnant. By this point I was getting lots of comments from people I didnt know about how big I was. and amazement that I wasn’t due for another 7 weeks. Gotta love random stranger comments like that…

Toward the end of October a friend of mine gave us tickets she had won to see Toy Story on Ice. We took Nathan’s friend Phoenix, another hard core Toy Story fan, and they had a blast.

We also did our annual trip to Zoo Boo which we’ve been doing since Nathan’s first Halloween, but that will be a separate post because there are already too many pictures in this one!

And what October is really about…Halloween! We loved walking through our new neighborhood with all the other families and young kids. Nathan was a little shy about going door to door, but was doing well until about 3/4 through when one of the houses had dry ice at the door and he got a little scared. We did a few more houses after that, but he was telling us he had enough candy and was ready to go home

Checking out the loot.

More pictures from October here

I took Nathan out to a few houses to Trick-or-Treat for Halloween. I don’t think he quite knew what to make of it, especially since our neighborhood is pretty quiet for the holiday so there weren’t lots of other kids out doing the same thing. He also had a Halloween party and parade at daycare that morning, so I think he was kind of over the costume by the time we went out. Either way, it was a fun evening.

Getting ready to go out.

Checking out the loot.

Enjoying a Halloween treat.

He’s saying Cheeeeese!

Really wanted to find a way to pick them up.

In the last couple weeks we hit another farm and went to the Maryland Zoo again for their annual Zoo Boo. Nathan loved it all and doesn’t seem to get tired of feeding goats or watching animals, but I think Gary and I are ready to take a break since we’ve had two farm trips and two zoo trips in the last month (not to mention another farm and zoo trip in the late summer.)

A couple of weeks ago we met friends and their 19 month old at Elioak’s Farm. It was a gorgeous day and we got to take a hay ride and play in the pumpkins.

Nathan & Jonas

You know you wanted to see another picture of Nathan feeding goats…

Nathan really seemed to love the hay ride

Checking out a tractor.

This past weekend we met friends at the Maryland Zoo for their annual Halloween event. We didn’t do more than walk through the Zoo Boo part since most of it was too old for Nathan, but it was fun to dress Nathan up, catch up with friends, and stroll through the zoo. Surprisingly, Nathan didn’t mind wearing his costume and even liked roaring for us.

Nathan the Lion

The kids weren’t very interested in posing, but we had to try.

Nathan took his first spin on a Carousel and loved it.

More pictures from Zoo Boo here.

Nathan in his first Halloween costume. We went to the zoo on Sunday with some friends and their babies, so Nathan got to dress up.

Nathan had his 6 month pediatrician appointment today. He was a trooper with his vaccinations and we get to start yellow and orange veggies! Now it gets really fun.
The stats:
18 lbs 4 oz (50th percentile)
25 1/2 inches long (25th percentile)
17 inch head circumference (btwn 25th & 50th percentile)

And it’s amazing how much he’s changed!

One Month

Three Months

Six Months