Halloween

For whatever reason, Addison loves Halloween. She has been talking for a year about last Halloween and started talking about her costume in (probably) August. And not only talking about her costume, but changing her mind about what she would be on a daily basis. One thing was for certain though, her brother was GOING to be a pumpkin. Eventually she decided on a pirate princess for her favorite cartoon, "Jake and the Neverland Pirates" on the Disney Channel.

My mom was - again - tasked with making her custome. And it turned out really cute and pretty close to the acutal character, I think. (See pics above.) She also made Sawyer's custome, the pumpkin. It was sooooo darn cute, but our little moose man couldn't fit into it. He was too big! But even though he didn't get to wear it, we still have a cute little t-shirt for him to wear with happy bat on it. He still looked cute, custome or not.

The day of Halloween Addie's school had their fall festival. Because Chuck's family was here, he was on leave that day so we both volunteered to help out. We had fun playing games with all the kids. Addison got lots of prizes - mostly junk. But it was obvious that she had fun and she got to show off her custome.

Halloween night we took Addison trick or treating around the neighborhood. It was a beautiful night and there were a lot of people out and about in the neighborhood. We left Grandpa Jim at the house to hand out candy and Addison, Kathie, Edie, Charlie, Sawyer and myself set out to gather up some candy. However, Sawyer screamed from his pack for the first 15 minutes and the grandma's decided to take him home. Addison loved the trick or treating and she did really great. Unlike last year, she didn't try to walk into people's houses when they opened the door. She liked to say "Happy Halloween, Trick or treaty!" It was especially nice for Charlie to be involved in this because last year he missed Halloween while he was at Weapons School!

It was a great night for us all and the next day Addison was asking to do it again. Luckily, her excitement has worn off some and she is now looking forward to Christmas. But I know her well enough to know that it wont take her long after Christmas to be asking about Halloween again. She really does love it which I find odd. Because neither her dad or myself are huge Halloween fans. But that again, I guess it is different for a little kid....