Trunk or Treat and Rock

Lydia's school was having a trunk or treat thing in the parking lot so we suited up and made an appearance.

I thought the Candy Land car was especially fun.

Zoe's... coworker or friend or something is in a band and we went to Bad Bar in Seattle to check them out. "Bonney Rubble is a Seattle-based Doomgaze band that fuses the worlds of shoegaze, post-rock and doom metal."

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.

I'm not sure where the hell I even was at this point but I can confidently tell you I was drinking a Lucky Envelope creation. They're the best.

Cruising Treat Street

At school the teacher sometimes the other kids will be doing whatever and the cutest smartest boy in the world will be reading a book. It's so cute and I'm so proud of him every day.

Zoe helped us finish our bottle of limoncello we bought in Italy.

Kirkland Urban has the best neighborhood events ever. Today was the Sunset Market and Treat Street.

A highlight was this treat-or-treat wall thing.

Spooky hands gave Ern some treats.

Grabbing a stranger's hand is all the treat I need.

There was even a small corn maze.

We had some dinner at Moss Bay Hall.

I drank a beer out of a pair of pants.

Spooking Up the Mall

Today we surveyed the Marketplace at Factoria to see their Halloween decorations. Not bad.

Ernie is still thankfully in the phase where he doesn't know you're supposed to put money in arcard machines.

Monster Mini Golf Bellevue is fun because it's decorated with many famous Seattle area personalities. I'm not from here obviously, so this is where I learned that Kenny G was born in Seattle.

We had some Venezuelan food at Arepa.

Ernie got bit by another kid at school today. They were fighting over an Elmo book. Ernie does not play when it comes to Elmo.

Currently he knows the proper names mama, dada, Zoe, baba who I think is grandpa Tom, and Elmo.

Fish and Newfound Wealth

We did some driving lessons at Tot Lot Park.

We walked around the neighborhood a bit and scoped out some of the Halloween decorations.

We visited the aquarium and it was some pride day thing.

Ernie was pretty hyped about his first drag performance.

Ok enough of that. Let's look at some fish.

Ernie picked up his first coin off the ground. It was a penny. Nowhere to go but up from here!

His grandma Helen gave him a little coin bank and some coins last time she was in town. Ern has enjoyed playing with it, putting coins in over and over then shaking it like a rattle. Well I got him to say "money"... sounds more like "muh" at this point.

Anyway today we were going to the aquarium and I found a penny in the parking lot and I showed it to Ernie and told him we could put it in his bank when we got home. That was the first time I've done that with him. Money on the ground is sort of going out of style I think compared to when I was his age because of credit cards. Anyway we were walking between the old and new aquarium buildings and Ernie spotted a penny, said his version of "money" and bent over and picked it up. I was very proud and clapped. He even let me hold it when I told him we could put it in his bank when we got home. Back in Kirkland He proudly popped both into his little bank. My mom did a good job of teaching me about money and investing at an early age and that's something I intend on repeating.

One of the best sounds for me is when I'm giving him raspberries or something else that's making Ernie roar with laughter. After he's done laughing a ton he'll say "dada" in a laughy sound of tone like "dada you're crazy bro" kind of thing. I get a big feeling of accomplishment from it.

We were both pretty proud about it.

Saved it for later.

I did a flight at Old Stove Brewing.

We put our new penny safely into the bank Nana Helen gave us at home. The rich get richer!