a REAL pirate! ARGGHH!

You probably saw them. There were quite a few in our neighborhood, too. With their store bought costumes and awkward black patches, those fake pirates sure tried to mess up the image of the real ones. Don't worry. Anderson represented, real eyepatch and all!

A cowboy and a pirate-2 American heroes.

I do like to bring my parents with us whenever possible. They hung out with Anderson at one point while Brandon & I went through this pretty elaborate haunted maze in our neighborhood. I was terrified, further proving to Brandon that he married a wimp.
Love the attempts at family pictures.
Pops is so talented. How fun is this witch?
The wagon ride complete with a pirate sword (thanks, Aunt Clare!), a pumpkin bucket, a sippy cup and, of course, a bobcat.

Stop everything. Anderson found the moon.

After practicing at Boo at the Zoo & church, Anderson knew exactly what to do. I guess he knew a little too well because in the franticness to get to the next house we had a few falls.
He was so excited about the whole thing, which could be because I could not wait to start. We were out at 6:00 and didn't make it home until 7:30, which was even better than I expected! He even kept the hat on because we told him he couldn't trick or treat without it. He had so much fun watching everyone in the streets. We have a lot of trick or treaters, many of whom I have never actually seen before and didn't appear to speak English. I bought 8 bags of candy at CVS in preparation (I got some really good coupons, so I spent under $10 on all of it) and we only had 2 bags left.
We found a pirate! This guy was so nice and gave Anderson a lot of candy because he said wearing a patch just for a few minutes was pretty awful. Seriously, he was kind of in awe of Anderson for being such a trooper. Aren't we all?
Going through the loot. This was always my favorite part of trick or treating. We had hard core trading with my cousins that involved rules on how many points each kind of candy was worth. We took it very seriously.
While he loved trick or treating, nothing can beat the trucks.

And, just because I am obsessed with my kid, here is an adorable video of him saying "Happy Halloween!" It is, as always, not edited and kind of random, but you get the idea of his cuteness.