Halloween

Luke's first Halloween tonight, and our elephant did a great job! He was handing out candy by the handful, maybe two, to the kids at the door! And he even did some tricker treating of his own getting some candy from the neighbors down the street! Heres a few shots of Lukes first Halloween.

Gramma giving Luke Halloween treats!

Aiden, Collin, Hunter ( Duck Dynasty )

My friend Kayleigh Grassmid and I taking Luke tricker treating.

Luke handing out candy at the door!

The Last October Weekend

This week we had a few weekdays off because of the teacher meetings and stuff at school. So we headed North to Grandma and Grandpa Kalkman's cabin for the weekend. The Kalkman grandparents, James and the boys, and Jason were also up there for the weekend. The boys were ready to do some hunting in this freezing cold weather. Hunter got his second doe of the season, the lucky butt, with Dad's help. Luke learned more names and the Kalkman boys kept him busy for most of the weekend. This and Halloween should be a good ending to Luke's first October in the US.

Grandma pretending the clip hurt her finger. Luke's laughter was contagious!

Pinching Grandpa, he wasn't so good at faking the pain.

The Boys talking hunting.

Luke and his new best friend Ben

Tractor Ride with Grandpa

Luke playing with Grandma

Listening to music.

Luke helping Grandpa play solitaire. 

Kait making the crust for apple pie.

Luke playing his own game of cards.

Getting ready to go outside.

Luke and Me

Bundled up for a golfcart ride.

Ben and Luke, so cute!

Hunter shot his deer around 7 and we came back around 9 to look for it! We headed towards the blind and there it was white belly very close to edge of the dirt road. No tracking was needed!

Hunter and cousin Colin 

Hunter, Colin, Dad, and Jason tracing the deers steps for the fun of it!

Hunter and his second doe of the season!

Hunter and Dad

Hunter trying to get his doe on the rack, and it was a little heavy... haha

Cousin Jason moving the doe

The whole crew

Luke helping Grandma and Mom vacuuming.

Pumpkin Carving

Sunday night we carved pumpkins as a family (in Luke's case painting) for the first time with Luke! He kept saying pumpkin over and over as we started cutting the tops off and scraping the insides. After Mom scraped the insides Luke reached in and popped some gooey orange stuff and maybe a pumpkin seed in his mouth! Unfortunately, we didn't get a picture of his face, raw pumpkin insides aren't too good apparently. As the night continued he used Kaits t-shirt as a napkin, flung orange goop on the dogs back, and dumped the pumpkin seeds back into the pumpkin. He was keeping it interesting. Kait made a minion (from the movie Despicable Me), Hunter did a Duck Commander ( Duck Dynasty Call) and I did a moon and sun. Once the inside of his pumpkin was clean we handed him paintbrushes and a paint pallet. And boy did he make one colorful pumpkin. He kept telling Hunter to spin it so he could paint on all the sides. 'Luke's Pumpkin' as Luke says was covered in paint, along with his belly, face, and hands. I have to say he was pretty cute covered in paint!

He is ready to paint!

                                             Helping Mom cut open his pumpkin.

Luke's blurry reaction to the taste of the pumpkin.

The whole crew

He didn't really like the pumpkin on his arm.

Painting the pumpkin and his belly. 

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As you know the Klaasen family has been a great help through the whole adoption process! We went to there house Saturday night and Luke has been playing with Kyah. Here is a few of the cute shots we got of the two. (: