Trick Or Treat

Here's what I taught Rebecca about how Halloween should go:
 

1. Ding Dong
2. say "trick or treat"
3. Receive candy
4. say "thank you"
5. say "here mommy, here's my candy" as you turn over your candy to mommy!

Sounds good, right?

We had a fun and very busy Halloween.  First, we took Rebecca to my office where Halloween is a BIG holiday!  Employees are allowed to bring kids and spouses and a trick-or-treat is organized around the offices.  Rebecca did great.   She was a little overwhelmed at first - lots of noise - lots of people talking to her - and a couple of scary costumes, but she did well.  About half way through she did start crying, but I think she was just super tired.

Here are the pictures of the work party:

Our little ghost - I made the costume and matching shirts for me and Mike!

Family shot!

 

Rebecca with my friend's daughter in her Olympian costume!

 

After we left we went to lunch and then she took a nice 2 1/2 hour nap!!  Later that evening, we dressed her up again and trick-or-treated to 5 or 6 houses in the neighborhood.  She loved that...especially the houses with dogs which she is fascinated with right now!  Here are our evening pictures:

Aside from Halloween, she's been very busy lately.  I think I mentioned in the last post how she's fascinated with stacking things and also with bags and boxes and things.  I had a few empty diaper boxes laying around because I like to save them - they're nice and sturdy for storing stuff.  Anyway, she's been stacking those on top of each other and putting stuff in them, carrying them around, etc.  Last night, she climbed into one all by herself:

And last but not least...we have such a hard time getting good pictures of her - and it's even more rare to get her smiling.  I was trying the other day and got this one...a face only a mother could love?