Happy Halloween

Today was a great day!!  You might even say our best Halloween yet.  I guess I jinxed it enough by saying it was going to be awful that it turned out awesome.  Do people still say awesome?…it’s just what came to mind!

This morning we had Bella’s class party.  Bella went off to school and Oliver headed to the sitters.  I prepped a few things for Bella’s class and finished off a couple things for their costumes and then headed up to school.

Bella was the line leader for the class parade.  She did fairly well, looking at some of the students as we passed by.  All the grade school classes were lined up in the hallway to watch the preschool costume parade.

They took a class photo.  I’m deliberately keeping this photo zoomed out, as we are not supposed to post photos without permission.  But I wanted to show how they had all the supermans pose around Bella.  I thought it was cute.

Last night the kids and dad carved pumpkins.

Oliver did not like the feel of the slimy innards of the pumpkin.

Bella didn’t want to touch them either.

Both of them lost interest very quickly, so Jesse had to do a simple carving for this year.

After dinner we started the process of getting the costumes on.  Their undergarments cracked me up.

And then we headed over to our friends/aka Bella and Oliver’s babysitter to join them for trick-or-treating.  They have a daughter and son who are the same age as ours.

Oliver got the hang of trick or treating very quickly.  He loved the freedom of being able to walk up and down the sidewalks and streets.  He liked climbing up to peoples front doors and checking out the decorations.  He didn’t talk to anyone or even really smile when they offered candy.  But he certainly wasn’t shy about taking pieces from the bowl when they were offered.  In fact he would put his hand in 2 or 3 times until we would stop him.

There were tons of kids in the neighborhood and we had a great time.  Definitely better than our own neighborhood which got zero kid traffic.

We got back home around 7 pm and let Oliver have one of his treats.  Some of the treats were even toddler friendly!

His favorite thing of the whole night was a skeleton he got at one of the houses.  He carried it around for an hour before he dropped it, and sadly it then lost an arm.

Bella did awesome as well.  She had her head up a lot of the time and enjoyed walking around and maybe even looking at the kids that were all around her in costume.  She didn’t necessarily get any treats, we didn’t even take her up to any doors since she can’t really do stairs.  So tomorrow we plan to pick up some ice cream just for her.

Halloween Fussiness

Both kids were a treat today.  A fussy treat.  As I mentioned yesterday it's all leading up to a colossal fail for Halloween tomorrow.  I thought I would recap the past few years.

Bella's First Halloween Oct'-07

Bella was fresh out of the hospital by a couple of weeks.  This Halloween was actually a success as far as the holiday goes, although we were still learning the ropes with Bella and completely unaware of what was to come.

Bella's 2nd Halloween - Oct '08

On Halloween day Bella started getting in her first tooth (she was 13 months), she was miserable and fussy the whole day.  We actually didn't know what was wrong until a couple days later when the little white tooth started poking through.

Bella's 3rd Halloween - Oct'09

This year Bella was Little Miss Piggy and she actually got to enjoy the holiday.  She had a parade and party at school and then we went to my work for some trick or treating.  That year Jesse and I were John F. Kennedy and Jackie O.

Bella's 4th Halloween - Oct '10

Bella was really sick this day.  She did not go to her class party and we barely got her dressed up in costume.  We made it to two of our neighbors houses before we had to turn around and go back home as she was coughing too badly.

Bella's 5th Halloween, Oliver's 1st Halloween - Oct '11

This year Bella wasn't feeling the greatest, but I still sent her to school for her party and we went out to a couple of houses that evening to trick or treat at our neighbors.  They both were not really having a good time and would have rather been home.

Pumpkin Patch

Bella’s class had a field trip to a pumpkin patch today.  It was cold!!!  Oliver and Jesse came along too.  Oliver had fun looking at all the animals.  Bella was having a great time in the beginning, in fact she was yelling in anticipation before we got in.  Although once we started walking around, I think she felt it was a little too windy and cold, and kept her head down most of the time.  But every once in awhile she would look up.

We didn’t actually go over to the pumpkin patch part with her class, since you had to ride a wagon and Bella was all bundled up with a blanket on her cart, and I didn’t feel like getting her out of it.  So her friends were nice enough to pick out a good pumpkin for her to take home.

And yes, we pretty much had the place to ourselves.  While we were walking around, the rest of the class was over in the pumpkin patch.  So both Oliver and Bella got a one-on-one with all the animals.

Oliver and I are just getting over colds.  Bella seems to be getting one.  Oh yes, that must be because Halloween is on Wednesday.  The costumes are all made and ready.  I am signed up to help out at Bella’s classroom party.  Which of course all translates into Bella getting sick again for the 4th year out of 5 years.  I could be proven wrong, but you can see we don’t have a great track record.  Just hoping I don’t have to bail on everything.