Happy Halloween!

We had the BEST time yesterday! It didn't hit me until about 4:30pm on Halloween that we didn't carve a pumpkin. So, we did it right then. The only real reason behind it was watching Lily's reaction. I thought she would think it was cool. Well, the inside....she did not find cool!

....but she came around after it was carved. She liked putting the pieces back in like a puzzle. Before I knew it, it was time to put on her costume. My mom worked her magic again this year. I figured nothing could top the chicken costume she made last year so I chose something generic and simple, a strawberry. I should have known my mom is incapable of making anything generic. We tried on potions of the costume as they were being finished but it wasn't until last night that we put everything together. It was too much!!

I didn't realize until my mom came over after trick-or-treating

 that I forgot to put the leaves on her wrists. I was so disappointed!

We went to a neighborhood down the road to visit our friends moms house first. It was the perfect place for her to get 'practice'. She said trick-or-treat as we rehearsed and, "thank you" with wide eyes, not knowing what to think of her first few pieces of candy. She continued the routine for every house, quickly learning to put her hand out for more candy. It was so funny, she wasn't sure what was going on. At the second house she held out her pail to show them her, "Candy!" and was in shock when they gave her more, and her favorite, a lolli-"pop"! 

We walked from house to house listening to her babble about what she got at the last stop. We only went to about 10 houses due to short legs, being slowed by layers of leaves, combined with reviewing what we got after every house and watching all of the other kids running around. She would stand and stare at people going by, it was fun to watched the wheels turning in her head. She looked at everyone like, 'Is that....or isn't it....". She loved it! I woke up this morning wishing we could do it again tonight!

I am pretty conservative when it comes to candy but I figured

 Halloween was a good excuse to let her eat candy after breakfast!

Last weekend we started our fall festivities by going to Shelly and Rob's for our second annual trip to Denver Down's Farm. I have been looking forward to it since we left last year! The best part of the weekend was seeing the kids together. They love each other and (overall) are so sweet with one another. It was so cute to watch Lily do everything Anacapri did. When my mom asked her about the trip she said she saw "Pi" and went down the "slide" holding "hands". Watching them hold hands is just the cutest!!

We also went to an 'enchanted forest' before we left. The kids were a little frightened at first but they warmed up after a while. *I know most kids do it, but the "Cheese!" face is killing me!

Happy Fall!!!