Halloween

Addison discovered the joys of candy and cookies this Halloween season.  She sneakily stole quite a few of these little pumpkin cookies.

For Halloween Addison was a bee.  My aunt invited Addi to a neighborhood party a few days before Halloween.  We got her all dressed up and headed over.  She immediately cried when she saw this

She clung to me until she realized that there was a slide in the back yard.  She watched the older kids climb up it and was certain that she could do the same. 

The older kids started getting annoyed with the little bee that was at the bottom of the slide and started to just run right over her.  I spent the rest of the night attempting to keep her out of the way and off the slide.  She wants to play with older kids but she is just not quite there yet.

The night before Halloween we carved pumpkins.  Addi loved it.  She carried around her little pumpkin while we did ours and kept whacking it with the spoon.  When we got hers but open it was even more exciting for her.  She love sticking her spoon in and out and touching the guts.

Here are the finished products of our carving

Will had to supervise the football players during the college Trunk-or-Treat so we spent the beginning of the night there.  Addi refused to walk in her shoes.  I do not know what the deal was (she has worn them before)  but she seriously would not walk.  She was scared of the people that were dressed up (I don’t judge because I am scared of everything too).  After that unsuccessful activity we headed home.

I figured that we had enough candy and due to Addi’s inability to walk we decide to skip going door to door.  I took off Addi’s shoes, laid a blanket on the yard, got my candy and handed it out the kids.  Once Addi was shoeless  she loved having all the kids come on the lawn to chase around.  She ignored the candy bowl for awhile but once she figured out what it was there was no stopping the candy monster.  She would steal handfuls of Tootise Rolls, shove them in her mouth and run. When I finally caught she had eaten a few (wrappers and all) and the rest was pulled out of her mouth in a gooey mess.  For the rest of the night if I turned my head at all she was grabbing handfuls of candy.  Last year I ran out of candy within an hour and a half.  This year I was a little too prepared.  I now have a giant bowl of candy as well as two bags left over.  It stares at me and I really need to get rid of it before I gain 100 pounds.