Halloween isn't JUST for big kids who dress inappropriately.

Today is officially Halloween. Our neighborhood HOA tried to command us all to celebrate Halloween on Saturday, but you just can't stop a true Halloween celebration like we had today. (Ha.) I really had no intentions of taking Max trick-or-treating. He is way too young to enjoy getting dressed up and going house to house, and he is certainly too young to be eating a large amount of candy. And I certainly don't need to be accumulating more candy around here!! But, I really did want to at least get him dressed up and it seemed sad to just dress him up and take pictures at home, so when Julie suggested we take the boys to Heritage Park to ride the train in their costumes, I jumped at the idea. I even convinced Chris to leave work early (well, 5 pm is normal time for most people) and come to meet us.

Max borrowed one of Julie's boys old Halloween costumes. Nevermind the fact that it was for 6-12 months and Max is 14 months. I managed to cram him in there anyway and we took off to meet Sam and Nathanael.

Once Chris arrived, it was "All Aboard!" for our ride on the train. We were the only people on the train, because the other thousand or so people who were at Heritage Park were in line to go trick-or-treating. So, off we went on Max's first train ride. And...he loved it.

In fact, I think Max enjoyed the train ride ALMOST as much as the Rogers boys appeared to enjoy it.

"ROOOOOOAR!!"

And, approximately 20 minutes after we arrived at the park, we headed home. Max wasn't quite ready for Halloween to end, though, so he and his buddy Bailey had their very own costume parade in front of our house. The 1 neighbor who drove by during the parade enjoyed it.

And just like that, Halloween is over. Thank goodness. I really do not need to eat any more candy corn.