Trick-or-Treat!

No Amelia was not a ladybug again this year :( We have a few ladybug costumes for different ages but they were too big to fit her this year and she is waaay to big to wear last year's (6 month size) ladybug onesie costume. I didn't want to spend much money and buy a costume so I decided she would be a bunny. I already had pink sweat pants for her and a white onesie. She wore pink socks and her pink sport-like shoes. My mom gave her bunny ears at Easter and I safety pinned a fluffy white pom pom ball to her sweat pants. I was looking at winter clothes at Wal-Mart the other day because it is getting cold now and she doesn't have any winter clothes really. I found an adorable faux fur white hoodie jacket. It has a little bit of pink where the pockets are and on the zipper area. I thought this would be a perfect addition to complete the bunny look for Amelia! It would keep her warm, look stylish, and still be useful after Halloween.

I couldn't get a picture of Amelia's complete costume without Clint holding her hands down. She always takes the bunny ears off her head in about 2 seconds after I put them on.

My little bunny :)

Look at that cute bunny behind! Hop hop hop

Mommy & bunny

I don't want these on my head mom!

Clint and I taught Amelia to fold her arms and close her eyes a few months ago so she could learn to be reverent and also join us when we pray. She will randomly fold her arms and close her eyes throughout the day and at the end of church hymns. She is getting better at doing it on command. Clint told her to fold her arms and she did so he was able to get a picture.


And we're off to go trick-or-treating! We practiced at our house first. I had Clint open our door and give her candy. She wanted nothing to do with it. We joined our neighbors, Matt & Holly, and we went trick-or-treating together. After watching their almost 2 year old son trick-or-treat, Amelia started to pick up on what to do. When people would answer the door and put the candy bowl in front of Amelia, she would actually pick out a candy. Sometimes she would try to share and give it back to them. But after awhile she learned to put it in her bucket.

I gave Amelia her first ever sucker to eat; I didn't want chocolate all over her white jacket so I thought a sucker was a better choice. She sucked on it for 30 minute sor more and got to the tootsie roll in the middle. Amelia was a very sticky mess! At one point, the sleeve of her jacket was stuck to the tray on the stroller. I had to pull the jacket out from the sticky area. We decided she was done with the sucker and got her out of the stroller so she could burn off the sugar rush by trick-or-treating some more. If you look closely, you will see the sucker stick stuck to the jacket near her left arm/shoulder area. The stroller is sticky all over the tray table and her hands are a nasty mess. We used wipes to clean off her hands and face the best we could.

After getting Amelia out of the stroller, we knocked on a door and got some candy. They had a few white dogs behind a gate past the entryway. Amelia heard the dogs barking, pointed at them, and said her version of 'dog'. She started crawling into the entryway and then walked over to the basket full of dog toys.

Amelia doing her 'I don't know' hand guesture.

I bet this was one of the highlights of Amelia's night...getting to see dogs and play with their dog toys.

Sweet moment...smiling at daddy :)

Her hands and face were still so sticky, even after we attempted to clean it up with wipes. The fur from the jacket stuck to the sticky mess and you can see some of the fur on her hands and chin.

We walked around our neighborhood for about two hours. It seemed very slow at first; like we weren't going to get any candy. There weren't many people home and only a few houses left bowls of candy out for trick-or-treaters. After awhile we found houses that had the Halloween spirit and were sitting out on their front porch with candy and great decorations in their yards. Near the end of our journey we got to a house that had only gotten five trick-or treaters. She gave us three huge handfuls of candy. When we got home our bowl of tootie fruites looked untouched. Overall it was a pleasant evening. The weather was quite nice, I got in a good amount of exercise from all that walking, we accumulated a decent stash of candy, and Amelia wasn't cranky. Happy Halloween!