All Hallow's Eve

Emmett is in bed after his first real Halloween. He was dressed in a hand-me-down dragon costume from his cousin which he loved. Andrea had him try it on yesterday (Oct. 30) at around four, took it off of him, and he begged to have it put back on pre-trip to the park for the afternoon. The outfit got two full day's use. Tonight the neighborhood shut down a couple of blocks and tons of kids made their way up and down the street getting candy from some elaborately dressed people and elaborately decorated houses. We felt a little bit like pimps, and were essentially called such in nicer terms, as it was pretty obvious that Emmett was getting the candy for us. He learned to say "trick-or-treat" and roar like a dragon, so there were lessons learned this evening.

I would really love to know what was going on in Emmett's head as he saw everything. There were some pretty scary looking people and some strange costumes. Hopefully he doesn't end up with nightmares. Things couldn't get much worse in the sleep situation, I suppose.


Yes, so the sleep. We had a meeting with our downstairs neighbor who is upset about EVERY sound, not just Emmett, and have come to the conclusion (basically agreed to by her) that she is hyper-sensitive to noise. Hopefully things get better, but she makes it sound like she is going to move out in a month or so time. That would be a relief. Anyway, after our meeting last night, we were getting ready for bed at 10ish and Emmett started screaming. We let him cry for a bit, but he wasn't stopping so we ended up bringing him to bed with us. He slept but in all kinds of crazy positions. At least twice I had to stop him continuously kicking my face. Andrea and I are both exhausted right now and are going to be in bed as soon as I am done typing.
Big news today is that Emmett peed in the toilet (I know, he used to do this a long time ago, but we dropped the EC thing when we took on a nanny and never picked it up very well again). He is communicating that he needs to have or has had action in his diaper, so I feel like we are getting closer to being out of the diapers. The other exciting news is that he was able to pass gas by choice at the dinner table for the first time tonight. He was pretty excited. I think he is figuring out things south of his belly button.

A boring video of him in his outfit in action: