Connor's First Halloween: Oct 31st!

The celebration of Western holidays in China is really all about what you are able to do and what you want to do with them. Halloween is no different.
1. What you're able to do:
In Jiaozuo, the city we lived in before we moved to Wuhu, you could purchase some small Halloween items... for example, some costume pieces and trick-or-treat buckets though no one in Jiaozuo actually celebrated Halloween. In Wuhu we were surprised to find no one sold Halloween goods. This is especially surprising because Wuhu is a more developed city with a much-much larger population of foreigners than Jiaozuo.
2. What you want to do:
So what did we do to celebrate? We put Connor in a special Halloween outfit (which was brought to us from America), and carved pumpkins. Since he's too young to trick-or-treat we by-passed improvising that tradition this year.

One of the coolest things about Halloween is the clothes! Connor's cute Halloween outfit was another surprise from Nana and Bumpa's visit earlier in the month!

Connor's older cousin has the coordinating girl version of this suit. Cute!

Luckily, Christian had the day off work so we were able to spend a lot of time together.

Connor playing grab Dad's finger!

 And, of course, Connor got in plenty of naps.

Sleeping in Mom's arms.

When it was time to carve pumpkins we decided we would all make our scariest faces...

Christian's face was super scary!  

Connor got a little scared.

Kim went with crazed aunt look.

But Connor made the scariest face of all!

Here's our pumpkins all freshly carved!

Kim's pumpkin is on the left, Christian's is on the right and
Connor's "pumpkin" is front and center!

Kim's pumpkin.

Christian's pumpkin.

Jack-o-lanterns!

Finally, we took our completed pumpkins outside to get a few more Halloween pictures. It was a fairly warm night so we really enjoyed the time outside.

We bought the biggest pumpkins available.

A friend of ours took a shot with all three of us together!

Here are a few extra shots of Connor looking cute on Halloween:

"Oh my goodness, I cannot believe that!"

"Hahahah, that's the funniest thing I've ever heard!"

Connor's looking pretty good in all the orange.

It's a little strange to be the only people (that we knew of) to celebrate Halloween in the city, but we had a blast and felt that we did a good job celebrating Connor's first Halloween!

In unrelated to Halloween news, here's a shot of Connor engaged in a new activity... touching Dad's scratchy face. It's pretty awesome to see Connor swiping up and making contact with Dad.