Baby Shark

For the past week or so we've been abusing a promotion at Redmond Town Center where if you take a Halloween photo and post it to social media you get a gift card. Today was both the last day of the promotion and a trick-or-treat event at the mall. We were too deep to stop now.

Ern donned one of his many of this year's costumes. Shark!

I just so happened to have a shark costume of my own.

Lydia put on her old Ariel costume. Zoe... was seaweed?

We are officially gift card rich. Now what to spend them on?

Lydia likes to play a game where she insists we watch a movie then passes out 15 minutes later. This time she was so certain that she could stay awake through Barbie that she even made me a bet. Then she fell asleep, I won the bet, and watched a lovely film by myself. That's a winner.

Major Award Winning Baby

With Halloween approaching Lydia has been checking online marketplaces for used costumes. She found a few good ones and rather than go through the suffering of making a choice between them all we bought all of them.

The Pacific Bonsai Museum and Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden were having a costume contest so we thought that would be a good opportunity for Ern to try out one of his new outfits. We didn't want any boogers on his clothes so he got suited up in the trunk in the parking lot.

We thought garden gnome fit well with the outdoorsy theme.

Nailed it.

We checked out some bonsais while we waited for the judges to make their solemn determination of world's cutest baby.

Winner winner chicken dinner!

I am now the proud owner of a prize winning baby!

We got a bag of treats and a gift certificate to the plant shop. I've been putting a lot of time and money into this whole parenting thing so it's nice that my investment is finally paying off.

We went plant shopping.

Ernie had a victory meal at Puerto Vallarta Federal Way. I believe this was his first taste of refried beans.

He was a big fan.

Picked up our gift card at Redmond Town Center.

Ernie likes his new play table but nothing is quite as fun as: my foot!