Halloween Recap

I was expecting this to be somewhat of a repeat of our Halloween last year - a bewildered Sophie just sits in the stroller, maybe walks, confused and taking in all the sights and sounds and having no idea what the heck is going on around her and her parents are the ones having the real fun.

...but I was totally wrong!

We had so much fun with her this year and she was really getting it! 

She had festivities at daycare which probably helped set the scene. We were in a rush after getting home to get dressed and get off to our friends' place where we decided to trick or treat again this year. They have a really fun neighborhood for it and there's a nice group of us with kids all hovering around the same ages and seems like a great tradition. It was hard to get Sophie away from pushing Baby around but we got her excited by telling her that we were going to go see Bryce.

We got done up in our Aladdin, Jasmine and Abu costumes and hit the streets. She watched the older kids at first, and then when we started explaining to her that we were putting candy in her bucket, she was all about it. She started pointing out houses, asking us to "open door!" and often times when they offered the bowl to her, she would take a full handful and get really excited about "candy in bucket!" and by the end of the night she was saying "Halloween!" ("Happy Halloween" was a little too much of a mouthful for her.

She would be so proud with whatever she got from the house and come back out holding it up saying "this!" (or, more phonetically, "dis!")

Our crew had a lot of fun, and between us all it was us, the Thompson's and Bryce and grandma Linda, the Totty's and 10-week old Jaxon, the Wanamaker's and their two little ones James and Jack. We had road wines, ran into friends, and a really fun time.

Aladdin and Abu with Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtle Leonardo and Master Splinter

Megan is their pizza lol

Grandma Linda got too hot for her
Donatello costume

After the trick or treating was done, we were hanging out at the Thompson's house and we ended up staying there a long time - we were all having such a good time. Sophie was in such a good mood which still baffles me because we couldn't really get her to eat any dinner, she didn't eat any candy, and it was hours past her bedtime! Her and Bryce were running around being crazy, pushing dolls in strollers, jumping onto beanbag chairs, going down slides and chasing the dogs. We finally tore ourselves away around 10:30p, and we got Sophie down well without her ever having a meltdown.

It was a surprisingly great night (we knew we'd have a good time but we didn't know Sophie would be so interactive and into it) and I'm sad it's over, but now we're onto Sophie's upcoming birthday...!