Trick or Treat Village

On Thursday night, Karsten and I went up to Scott's school to trick or treat. Each club decorates part of the building with a theme and the group that Scott is a sponsor of organized the event. Karsten wasn't too happy to put his costume on, but once we were walking around I think he forgot he had it on.

This big inflatable decoration was really intriguing to Karsten. He was content with Scott getting close to it, then it 'came to life' and came toward him, and it startled him quite a bit!


This was the look on his face when it came to life and started to get closer to him. I think I caught the tail end of him being startled.


The kids performing in the musical Bye Bye Birdie seranaded us - they did a fantastic job and Karsten loved listening to them sing.


When any of the kids would try to get close to say Hi to Karsten, he would bury his head in Scott's sholder. I think a group of 8th graders is pretty intimidating, so I can imagine that a group of them was probably way overwhelming to Karsten.

After we had gone through all of the scenes, we took Karsten's hood off and thought he might like to get down and walk around. He was NOT a fan of that idea - he wanted Scott to hold him.


He enjoyed watching all of the kids running around.


Could have been a cute family pic - too bad he didn't wnat to look at the camera!


One of Scott's students stopped for a few minutes to play ball with Karsten.


More people-watching!


He was much more outgoing once he had a ball to play with!


He didn't run away, but he wasn't so sure what to do with Dorthy from Wizard of Oz (another one of Scott's students). He mostly just watched her as she talked, I don't think he got brave enough to take a piece of candy from her.


It was a fun night, I'm glad we went to school. I think it was good practice for Karsten to have his costume on for Halloween and it's always good to see Scott's coworkers!