Irene's Blog: Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween! We had a fun filled day yesterday. The girls were dressed both as ballerinas because that was the only way I could get Natalie to wear a costume. She liked this one for two reasons, one it was pink and the other one that Izzie was wearing it too.

In the morning I took the girls to a nearby park in Round Rock where they were having a Fall Festivals. It was great because it was for toddlers & preschoolers so it was all little kids. They had games and hay rides. It was a beautiful day so it was nice being out. Natalie was fascinated with all the kids in costumes. She was not that interested in doing the games but she had fun looking at everyone. We did go on the hayride and both girls enjoyed that.

In the afternoon Natalie's school was having a Halloween party so after nap time we headed that way. Aaron met us there from work. It was cute watching all the kids from her classroom dressed up. They had a bouncy house so Natalie was very excited.

After the party at school we came home and had a quick early dinner and then around 6pm we hit our neighborhood. I guess it was still early but since the girls go to bed so early we had to do it then. Natalie was very confused about the whole thing, going to people's houses and knocking on doors but not going in and they give you stuff. She was shy at first but then got the hang of it. Izzie was just following us around no idea what was going on, but she was looking very cute and everyone enjoyed watching them.

So after going to a couple of houses we came home and put the girls to bed. By this time people are starting to make their rounds so Natalie was very curious about kids coming to get candy. Still Aaron read her books and put her to bed. So Aaron and I went outside. We were planning on sitting out front that way we could hand out the candy before the kids rang the doorbell and not having the dogs bark and wake up the kids. After about 10 minutes of being outside, Natalie showed up. She could not sleep and found us outside and saw the people on the street and forget it, there was no way she was going to sleep now. She sat with us and handed candy out. She kept screaming when she saw people on the street because she was so excited. She would get mad if people would not come by. She did not understand that they had already been here, she just wanted people to come and keep coming. So she had a blast outside. She will definitely have a lot of fun next year. At around 8:30 things started getting quiet and she was getting tired but she would not go to bed unless we came inside too, so we called it a night and came inside. She passed out immediately.

We had a very fun day yesterday, now we are trying to figure out what to do with the huge amounts of candy we have left. Trying to hide it from Natalie & ourselves. Aaron will have to bring it to work, we need to get it out of here :-)

At the park....