You *know* that the day after Halloween, everybody and their brother is going to post cute kid pictures.  That is, they’ll do this after they awake from their candy-induced comas.

This year, Jaden was Superman, replete with totally ripped abs.

*sniff* yeaup, AHEM, he, um, gets those from my side of the family…

Jaden started off on his trick-or-treating trip pretty excited and wanted to get a jump on everyone else

You might not be able to tell from the photo, but he’s running at a speed of 75 miles per hour.  The car next to him is easily going 60, and as you can tell, Jaden is passing with ease.  It’s a good thing I have an amazing shutter speed on my digital camera!   

Soon after his super-fast jaunt, he quickly was sidetracked by a single focused thought in his super brain …

MUST HAVE RAYGUN

After he did some trick or treating, he tired of it quickly.  He kept saying that he just wanted to go to the park.  I’m thinking “WHAT?!?!?!”  Son, you have an extremely limited number of opportunities for free candy in this life.  And you get less and less as you get on in years.  You’re going to pass that up?  For some stupid swing in a stupid park?

And then he did

Ah, the bliss of childhood enjoyment.

There was one stop we made where the adult giving out candy asked the kids their names and when they responded with their names, he yelled back “DON’T GIVE OUT YOUR NAME!”.  I thought it was a good lesson.

So the 4 of us went to the side and decided on what name they’d give if someone asked their name.  Jaden would say “Superman”, and the others had good names like “kid,”, “pipsqueak,” and “princess.”  So we went back to the same house and he asked again “what’s your name” and Jaden said, proudly, “SUPERMAN!”  I was proud too.