The Great Pumpkin...Wait for it...

Niko's 1st Halloween was a busy one! First we headed to the airport to surprise Grammy and Pop-Pop on their return from their 2 month vacation. We stopped by my office in the morning to show off lil' Eeyore (I am getting my money's worth out of this costume!) and then headed to the airport. As luck would have it there were too huge accidents on 101 so we ended up at the airport at 10:40 as opposed to the planned time of 10:15. Of course, as we are waiting at the Customs departure area I called my parents to check their status...yup, they were already on bart. ARGH! So we packed up and met them in Daly City and headed home from there. Since we missed out on the surprise-infused photo shot at the airport, Grammy and Pop-Pop were nice enough to humor Nikos and pose for the slightly anti-climatic-but-still-adorable shot in front of the garage.

Next up Mel and the kids met up with us and we headed to Chicago's Pizzeria Uno where Maile got to make her own pizza and Niko showed off his 2nd Halloween costume of the day - Pumpkin #1.

First you add the sauce...

Make sure to spread it around.

The finished pizza!

Niko sports his Eeyore face for the pumpkin pic. Please excuse the non-matching socks, they are left over from costume #1 (Eeyore).


And now...the piece de resistance. The reason you tuned into this blog today. Charlie Brown's Great Pumpkin has nothing on this...

And since he was covered in pumpkin goop - the bath afterwards. You can tell by the look on his face he is NOT HAPPY with me for putting him through this pumpkin humiliation!