It all started with Zoo Boo on Saturday! Fun time again this year
Strawberry Shortcake
The pink puppy costume wasn't zoo friendly, so Ella wore her Halloween dress.
Ella had quite a hard time picking just one pumpkin. She must have picked up and put back a dozen of them!
Paint pens and toddlers are not a good combination. Fortunately not too much on the dress.
Both girls looking at the camera and smiling = impossible
This was Ella's first time on the carousel sitting by herself. Exciting and a bit scary at the same time!
Celebration continued with some pumpkin carving. Addy really got into this year
She even stuck her hands in the goo!!
Ella on the other hand was not a fan!
Then at 6:00 Aunt Jean's Halloween Carnival started. Unfortunately Aunt Jean was out of town this year, but we still had a great time.
The Sesame Street booth was a HUGE hit with Ella this year. She is Elmo obsessed at the moment. She is pointing at the booth b/c Elmo was gone and she wanted him back! We spent a lot of time here and she finally got the knack of giving Elmo the ticket and getting candy. Only problem was that she always tried to give the candy back to Elmo.
Daddy and the pink puppy.
Cute as can be!
Pink puppy became candy obsessed. Not because she knew what it was, but she LOVED her green pumpkin basket (or bucket depending on Addy's choice of words - trick-r-treat bags don't exist). When you took her bucket/basket away, Ella would start screaming "snack".
And finally the big day was here! It was a long night with trick-r-treating in the neighborhood and then trips to the grandparent's.
A picture with the puppy smiling if you look close! She actually liked her costume OK and once I made it so that she couldn't pull it off, she was fine with it. Even left the puppy ears alone! I made an adaptation after the carnival and moved the ears from a headband to clips, which worked much better. It is such a homemade looking costume, I laugh every time I see the pics! The tail is my favorite. I am proud of Ella for putting up with my desire to make her a costume. Figure she'll have more of an opinion next year, so had to do it while I could!
Anxiously awaiting Mr. Larry to answer the door. Addy liked going door-to-door but wouldn't say "trick-r-treat". I was talking to her about it and she said she was just shy and didn't want to say it! Another funny comment of the night was about Jewish people celebrating Halloween -- at school they don't celebrate Halloween, so we had to talk about not wearing her costume to school because it isn't a Jewish holiday. Then a lot of the houses in the neighborhood had their lights out, so we were explaining that you don't knock on those doors because those people maybe don't celebrate Halloween or aren't home. So the rest of the night she was saying that the people with their lights off must be Jewish because Jewish people don't celebrate Halloween. We of course clarified, but it was pretty funny to hear her spin on things!
One of my favorite pics of the girls is from Halloween last year. Unfortunately we were not able to recreate the scene this year. Ms. Ella was not a fan of the camera. On multiple occasions she would laugh and smile as soon as the pic was over. But never when we were ready to snap a pic!
I've never seen so many people walking around Bellaire! No lie, we had to wait in line to get into Dad's house because there were so many people trick-r-treating. Ella thought that it was ridiculous and just tried to charge through the people, and Addy thought that it was funny along with the rest of us. Once we got in Addy got to help pass out candy, which might have been one of the highlights of the night. Too bad they ran out of candy because Addy could have done it all night! And I think that Ella was getting in on the fun too.
Fun but tiring times. I'm ready to take the Halloween decorations down and move onto Thanksgiving.
