Choo Choo Too Too

By complete coincidence after the last post, and by dint of some cool hand-me-down overalls from the Jacob & Ronan Collection, Luke was a train engineer for Halloween. For the total of 3 minutes he wore the hat (thanks, Steamtown gift shop!)

On Friday evening, we went to a little party thrown by our apartment complex. Luke was a little overwhelmed by it all, and I don't think he's quite grasped the concept of Halloween. He got a little water out of it, though. He made repeated requests to "sit" and to have "water"

Mostly, though, he started at the big kids running around

He did take time to prove that he's not afraid of some stupid sparkly skeleton. Paul showed it to him, and he immediately kissed it. (he's weird)

On Saturday, even though it fell right at nap time, we took Luke to Hoboken's annual Ragamuffin Parade. Before the parade got underway, he and Dad got to take a close look at one of Hoboken Engine 1's cool fire engines!

Poke!

Mostly, though, he seemed to find it all a bit overrated

Once the parade got underway, he again took a strict spectator role.

And rejected his hat time and again

What we did find out is that we should have conceived a costume that involved Mom's winter gloves and Ezra Jack Keats' Peter's Chair. He spent the better part of Friday evening and Saturday morning wearing the gloves and carrying the book around, announcing his readiness to "GO"

And he was very serious about it

And even resisted photos

Again with the seriousness

And here he is yelling at Mom to "GO OUT"

And he tried to jump start the out-going

But mostly, he was a sweet guy in a funny outfit

Choo Choooooooo

Well, Luke certainly figured out the story with Mom's Huffy Puffy train. All of a sudden this evening, he was determined to put in some quality time with the "choo choo." Mom or Dad pushing the train - especially into him - is just flat out hilarious. Sure, he's covered in daycare toddler crud and parts of his dinner, but I couldn't resist.

The discerning ears can make out his new buzzword, "Peeeese?" as he asks Dad to run into his foot with the train some more. (he also has "thank you" down, but that still requires s little prompting) Once he discovered a well placed "peeeese?" with the head tilt gets him cookies and toys and bubbles and Cookie Monster, he upgraded it in his vocabulary toot sweet. Just ask Aunt Tanya. (don't get him starrrrrted on Cookie Monster - so popular that all TV programming and the TV itself are "Cookie." Elmo, on the other hand, is a nameless monkey, prompting his "Ooo Ooo Ooo" monkey call)




[NB: it is highly likely that only blood relatives will sit through the entirety of this clip, and possibly only those of the grandparent variety]

We'd also like to remind you that Saturday, October 31st is the last day that donations to TEAM LISA will count toward our fundraising goal. Should you be feeling some Halloween spirit, please give by visiting www.komennyc.org/goto/paigeandluke09 or click on the link in the upper right corner!