{Trick-or-Treat}

Halloween was a lot of fun this year! 
It was the first time The Divine Miss O was really able to go trick-or-treating around the neighborhood and understand what was happening. 

She wasn't really into carving pumpkins, so Daddy and I ended up doing that.  She sat in her chair for a while and made scrunchy faces at the pumpkin guts as we scooped them out and dropped them onto the table.  She told us it smelled funny and even gagged a few times (which, I thought was pretty funny!  She has an extremely sensitve gag reflex and does this quite often at the smell or texture of foods she's not very fond of).  She ended up playing with Buzz and Woody, reading books, and entertaining Baby B for the majority of the pumpkin carving experience.



Lately, Miss O has been very uncooperative when it comes to getting her photograph taken.  She always has a sad, pouty face, or she's crying when I want to get a good photo.  This evening was no exception.  She wanted nothing to do with mommy taking her picture with the pumpkins.

Baby B was much happier to humor mommy and even smiled for a photo with the jack-o-lanterns!

On Halloween evening, we had to wait for Josh to get home from basketball practice before we could go trick-or-treating, so we got a bit of a late start.  We got both girls all dressed up, and again, Miss O was averse to having her picture taken.  Go figure! 

We got off to a rough start - there was some throwing of things, some tears, and a time-out - and that was before we even rang one single door bell!  But, once we got going and she started to understand what this trick-or-treat thing was all about, she had a change of heart.  She quickly became very adept at saying "trick-or-treat" in her adorable high-pitched voice and everyone thought she was the cutest Jessie the Cowgirl they'd ever seen!  Baby B was also dressed as Jessie in her little onesie and stocking cap.  B is so easy going, she was just along for the ride that night, taking everything in. 

My parents, Nina and Papa, were visiting and I think they had just as much fun as the kiddos did!  My mom pulled Miss O in the wagon, and my dad carried Baby B around.  The weather was so nice, we ended up sitting out on our driveway handing out candy to the swarm of trick-or-treaters at our house when we were all done.  All in all, it was a good day.  Lots of fun, lots of candy, lots of memories.