Happy Halloween!

This week has been a week of waiting for Halloween. Pippa remembered very well from last year how Halloween works: It gets dark, you go knock at strangers doors and you get free candy. Over the week she had to conserve her energy by taking a few naps here and there. She no longer naps in her bedroom with William, but she often still falls asleep either in our bed or on the sofa or floor. She seems to be transitioning away from a daytime nap. The other day she fell asleep sitting upright on the sofa. I moved her to my bed, and when she woke up 2 hours later she was upset that she wasn't on the sofa anymore. Toddlers!


Recently we bought Pippa a real bed frame off craigslist.org. Funny story as the anonymous ad I replied to happened to be put up by our friends, the Johnsons. Rob Johnson is Nick's work wife and Pippa loves Ginger and Wyatt, their young kids. Bend is a small town. Anyhow, the bed. It has a high clearance so Pippa and William like to crawl under there pretending it's a cave. One night we went in to check on them and we couldn't find Pippa. Yeah, she was blotto under the bed!


A big shout out now for GrAuntie Michele. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE COSTUMES! She made 3 costumes for my children; a bumble bee for Will, a teddy bear for Oliver and a princess dress for Pippa. Pippa was actually a ladybird/bug for Halloween (I had already made it!), but the dress will be for dressing up and boy, does she love it!




Now, here are some of the better Halloween photos. We went to the police station to Trick or Treat, then to Auntie Jess's house, then back to our neighborhood for over an hour of walking the streets and knocking at doors. The result: 2 buckets of full of candy and 2 hopped-up, tired but very excited children...

Halloweeeeeeen!

On Friday it was Halloween, in case you forgot. We decided to take Pippa 'trick or treating' around the neighborhood, just to a few houses. What we didn't realize was how much she would love collecting candy from scary looking houses in the dark, so she ended up knocking at closer to 30 houses around our neighborhood. She REALLY loved it! She ran up every driveway, knocked on the doors herself and said "Trick or Treat" and "Thank you" to every single person. Now she has a pumpkin bucket full of candy to get through. Of course, she is getting a little help...

Pippa was dressed as a little fairy and William was wearing his Thomas the Tank Engine outfit until he went to bed at 6.30! He was too tired to go out with Pippa, but she is a good sharer. I'm kind of excited about next year now. (Just FYI, it was also my first time going Trick or Treating, although I didn't have to dress up or look cute and I didn't get any of my own candy, but it was still so much fun watching Pippa's eyes pop!)

William was sooooo tired!

Pippa didn't realize what was in store for her. She knew something fun was going on but little did she know. Christmas is going to blow her mind!