Happy Halloween!

So far, Sydney likes Halloween. We have some electric jack-o-lanterns on our cabinets and she points to them emphatically and makes an OH! noise about 10 times every day. She's really excited about all the decorations everywhere we go too - a girl after my own heart. I must say she was less than excited about the pumpkin innards (she sort of freaked out) but she was all sorts of excited about sitting on my lap while I carved the sucker around her tiny hands that kept trying to grab the knife. Naughty pants. Here she is getting in the spirit of Halloween.

What do you think Sydney should be for Halloween? A fairy?

Guess not. A bat? Definitely warmer at least.
Maybe a pumpkin head? (She did this btw. She's a total ham)
A bat it is! I got the costume last year at Target for $1.50 and we had already gotten our money's worth about 5 seconds after I put it on her. She's hysterical in it and she actually flaps her little wings!

Check out the flapping - she figured this out on her own somehow.


Last Friday was our ward's Trunk or Treat. There were tons of people there and it was tons of fun. Sydney was completely confused at first, but as you can tell, she figured it out pretty quick. Yeah, that's one piece in her mouth and one in each hand in the pic. Poor Aaron, it was dark and the flash was bright - we ended up with a couple of closed eye pics. At least he's smiling. :)

This is afterward. Needless to say, her pumpkin bucket filled with well sealed candy is her favorite new toy. She carries it everywhere and she's pretty determined to figure out how to get to the sugar (she's been sucking on a package of whoppers for about 3 days and finally worked her way through to the chocolate last night. She was in heaven). She's now had her first lollipop - shocker, she liked it as well as her first Starburst - on accident. Oh yeah, Halloween is a good holiday.

Also, we get to do our Halloween clearance shopping today and next week. Finally! I've been waiting forever! We'll post on our plunder later on.