The Obligatory Cute Halloween Pictures

I can't believe that Halloween has come and gone! It's already November 4th, and we're barreling towards Thanksgiving and my personal favorite holiday and time of year: Christmas! I had hoped to start working on my Griswold Christmas lights display this weekend, but busyness, me-time (thanks J!), and poor J being sick put a damper on it. There's always next weekend!

I thought I'd post a few pictures from Halloween. It was very fun, but VERY tiring. Livers and I went with my parents to the mountains, and for some reason she didn't nap all that much in the car. This led to some very trying times on Halloween night (and hence very few pictures).

I had had great aspirations of dressing Livers up as a box of Mac-N-Cheese, but the spray paint I used on her box ended up bubbling, so I had to go look for her a costume the day before Halloween. The first place I tried was one of those Halloween outlet stores that come around, but I found them to be WAAAAAAY too expensive. I could get her multiple outfits from Target for the $30 for costumes the place was charging. I was about to pull out the sewing machine and some cheap Wal-Mart fabric to make her a costume when I saw the most adorable costume at Children's Place: a penguin! Mama LOVES her some penguins (and so does Livers), and sweetening the deal was the fact that it was half off. So for a meager $12 I got her a cute costume she loved for no effort. Way to go procrastination!

A quick shot before we left for the Halloween party. Note the look of extreme excitement in Livers' face.

Some neighbor friends of ours like to do a Halloween get-together for kids and family, so we decided to do that and then stop by my parents so they could see Livers. It was a lot of fun, but there was so much action going on that Livers' poor brain was on overdrive and she wouldn't sit still. She was bouncing from one thing to the other up until trick-or-treating. She didn't even want to stop for one of her favorite dinners: hot dogs.

Livers stopping to look at the neighbor starting his 4-wheeler for the hay ride. She had been trying to break into the bag of marshmallows. About two seconds later she rolled out her lip and looked at me in fear of the 4-wheeler, saying "Mama!"

Trick-or-treating was no fun for me at all. I had this image in my head of the two of us happily walking from door to door and her being a cute little angel, but that was shot with the first house. I couldn't get the stroller to the front door, so I had to take her out for her candy. Livers was nervous about seeing new people, so she clung to me, and when I tried to put her back into her stroller she had a gigantic meltdown, so much so that the lady at the first house came out and asked if I needed any help. (She's a new mom, so she understood.) I told her no, and threw Livers on my shoulders and walked away.

I knew the stroller wasn't going to work, so I rolled it back to the party and took off with Livers on my shoulders. It was a constant from hip-to-shoulders walk all night, and I thought my arms were going to give out. Every time I tried to get her to walk she would do one of those "go limp and melt to the ground" routines toddlers are famous for. She also kept reaching into her candy bucket for candy, and I finally gave in and gave her a Twix to keep her quiet. Should've done it a long time ago, because she was an angel once she had a little candy to munch on.

By the time J and I got her strapped into her car seat to go to my parents she was about to fall asleep, and she was definitely out by the time we made the five minute ride to their house. We only stayed long enough to show off the costume, and after that we promptly went home, upon which Mommy lost her temper because Livers was too tired to eat and instead threw her food on the floor. I put her in bed and she was asleep within seconds.

Hopefully next year will be a more enjoyable Halloween.....

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On an amusing note, every time Livers wants a piece of her Halloween candy that she knows is stashed in the pantry, she looks at us and goes "Candy Bars! Twick or Tweet!"