Halloween 2014 and the park

 It is so much fun trying to think of costumes for this guy.  Not!  He will not keep anything on his head or face so that eliminates about 98% of the marketed costumes.  I saw this one last year when I bought his vampire costume and snatched it right up!  It was easily readable and felt like regular clothes so I know it would be easy to get him to wear it.  Mission accomplished.  

 Quick photo shoot in the backyard before we made our way out for trick or treating.  The ironic thing is that he should be the one in the police uniform since he is the one in charge around here!

 This is one bossy inmate!  He likes to be carried around on our shoulders.  Don't get used to being that tall buddy!

So we began our trick or treating right at 7 when it started to get dark.  We had made it to a few houses before we saw a police car circling the neighborhood.  We were relieved that he was just driving around to make sure everyone was behaving, but then I had a brilliant idea.....  The police officer played along nicely and allowed us to put Grayson in the back of his vehicle.   

Love this shot. Looks like I bailed him out!

All in all, trick or treating was a major success and we had a pumpkin full of candy to show it!  The speech teacher at Grayson's school had made these cute little cards for him to hand out at each house.  They said "Happy Halloween, thank you for my treat."  Each had a Halloween symbol on them also; a candy corn, black cat, pumpkin, you know the drill.   So he would get candy to put in his pumpkin and then I would hand him the card to give to the homeowner.  If they weren't looking, he would put it in their candy bowl which I thought was adorable.  Once they saw what it was they were gawking about how cute of an idea it was.  I can't take credit for it, but I will do it every year from now on!

 Grayson had some practice trick or treating that afternoon with ABA.  I lent Ms. Carolina our police hat so they would have costumes that went together.  I received the following 3 pictures on my phone before pick up.   First an arrest, then a tickle session, then great smiles.

 ABA took a field trip to the park nearby.  They are trying to encourage more sociability with peers.  So they had another boy, very close in age to Grayson, hold his hand and go through the playground equipment together.  I even got videos and it was so cute.

 They even made it to the slide where they sat down and went down the slide together. At ABA this is a one on one environment so this was facilitated by the therapists.  They also go to public school together also.  Interestingly enough, when I went to pick him up the following day from school, his teacher told me all about how they were playing on the equipment outside together and even sliding together!  What a great transfer of skills in a different environment.  We were all very impressed!

 And after the park they headed back to therapy where this guy got his first fat lip.  He was doing his typical running around and his toe must have gotten caught on the tile.  Split lip, blood gushing and all. With a little bit of ice and my trusty essential oils, he was back to his gorgeous self in no time.  Still had to document our first real injury. :(