Halloween

I totally should have made multiple Halloween posts this year as this one is a little picture heavy. We seriously had such a blast last week. On Tuesday we went to the celebration downtown. Interestingly, USA Today included it as one of the 10Best Halloween costume parties. I don't know about all that. As usual, this was one of those events that was better in theory than in practice. But A got to wear costume #1--a ladybug ("Lainey"bug!!) from her cousin Avery.

After the festival, we went back to the house to work on her trick or treat bag for Friday's costume.

We also had lots of fun Halloween themed shirts but I forgot to take a picture of most of them. :/






We made candy corn magic bars for my class on Thursday.





They were delicious.



We also put together her favor bags for her school's Halloween party.

The Halloween party was crazy cute. For this party she got to wear an adorable bumblebee costume from Ricki's cutie pie niece, Jaylah. Funny story about the bumblebee--initially A wouldn't even get near the costume. She said it was "scurry" so we did a little graduated exposure until she was actually asking us to put the bee on her. She was very angry (as you will see below) when it was time to take it off to go home.

A's costume was so much fun. We used the high chair tutu that Ricki made for A's first birthday, her rainbow leggings, and a shirt that I ironed on a rainbow patch to make the cutest little rainbow brite ever. I haven't decided if I like this costume or the Cabbage Patch Kid better. Chad's favorite is still the cupcake. I guess next year is when she will start having more input on what costume she wants. It will be fun to see what she comes up with!

A's favorite part of the night, though, was handing out candy. She kept getting excited and saying "more friends? more friends coming, too?" and she was really disappointed when it ended.

This is the first year I have ever decorated for Halloween. It wasn't much but it was a lot of fun. Baby A especially liked reading off the letters on the signs and pointing out the bats, spiders, and pumpkins. Decorating holidays may become one of my new favorite things!

Look at the awesome wreath my sister, Sarah, made!