Halloween Day

I seriously have not had this fun on Halloween since I was a little kid. Here is a recap of our Halloween day...


We started off the morning by going on a walk with our neighbors to a little cafe and having a smoothie. The girls loved riding in the stroller together.


After lunch and a nap, we started getting the costume on and met up again with our neighbors for a Halloween picture, similar to the one last year that we took on Halloween. Maida was a tiger and "Boo-boo" was Piglet. We also took a picture with Boo-boo's mom, me, and our girls (we took this picture last year too!).



Erik really wanted to dress up for Halloween, but Wallmart was all sold out of the giant whoopee cushion costume that he's had his eye on. So he decided to be a flower instead (it was the only thing we had lying around the house). He had a green shirt on for the stem and brown pants on for the dirt.


Here are some pictures of Maida on our front porch before we headed to the Halloween party...

(The last picture was taken last year. I thought it was cool to see how much she's changed in one year.)

After taking some pictures and putting some finishing touches on Maida's costume, he headed to the church building for a pot luck and some trick-or-treating around the neighborhood...

When asked to say "trick-or-treat," Maida said "tutu," and always said, "thank you," after she got the candy. She surprisingly never tried to eat any of the candy until we were on the way home and Erik told her that she had to wait until we got home before eating it- he didn't want the car to get sticky. But we let her hold a sucker and before we even got three blocks down the road, my very keen pregnancy nose smelled a red tootsie pop, and sure enough, she had opened the sucker all by herself and was eating it! Soooo cute!

On the way home we stopped by Ryan, Andrea, and Avery's house. We stayed and played for a little while and the girls helped Ryan hand out candy to other trick-or-treaters...

After getting home and looking at all of Maida's candy (and eating a few pieces too!) Maida was just wired! So we let her stay up and help clean up the house with all of her extra energy! Erik took these pictures of her wearing his hat and helping mom with the recycling. She actually is a big help these days, now that I'm getting bigger and more immobile!

After a poop job on the floor and a long soak in the bath, Maida finally gave in and went to sleep. What a great end to a wonderful day. Happy Halloween! We hope you all had a great holiday too.