Happy Halloween!

Since this year was the first year you were really able to understand what was going on in your surroundings I had fairly low expectations of what Halloween would bring. My low expectations were greatly surpassed though. 

You didn't like wearing your costume much which was the hardest part of the whole holiday. We had a Bob the Builder outfit for you and a firefighter outfit and you weren't really keen on wearing either one. Once you realized that you got candy for leaving your costume on though you were willing to wear it for a while. We went with Bob the Builder since the firefighter coat was a little big. 

The weekend before Halloween was Boo at the Zoo. Being the eager new mom I am this has always sounded appealing to me. Loren wanted to go too, so the Bailly family went with us. The zoo was crazy, but you had fun. We visited the animals, rode the carousel, and played with the bubble machine. Since it wasn't much different for you from any other zoo visit, we decided we will wait until you are older and actually WANT to go to Boo at the Zoo before we take you again. 

We took you trick-or-treating in our new neighborhood and were amazed at how much you got in to it. You loved running around with the other kids and going up to the door. It only took you one house to figure out the hold your bucket out to get candy idea. You even were saying trick or treat! Granted we only went to about five houses, but it was fun. Then we stopped off at Grandma and Grandpa's house to say Happy Halloween and visited Great Grandma also. 

The day after Halloween your class at the daycare went to the hospital to tour and say trick-or-treat to some of the parents in your classroom. So, I took the day off of work and we met up with your class (you aren't going to school on Fridays). You had a blast and ran all over the place.