I hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween! This may be a new record for me as far as updating the blog. I'm usually a week late. I'm so happy it's over. The day or two leading up to Halloween provided lots of really bad behavior from the older daughter. Lots of mouthing off, sassing back, not listening, etc. Even her teacher said she had some behavior issues. At the end of the night on 10/30 I pretty much lost it with her after I couldn't take any more sassing. I went there and threatened to take away trick-or-treating. Seriously...I was ready to sell her to the Gypsies. Her behavior did improve significantly the next day.
This was taken on 10/30. I get lots of faces like this now.
I carved the Hello Kitty pumpkin and Meredith drew the face on her pumpkin and I cut it out. I got lots of compliments on my Hello Kitty pumpkin BTW.
Here's the close-up of Meredith's pumpkin. I think it's just the cutest thing ever! It's so 5-year-old.
Sooooo...on 10/31 we started off the day in costumes. Meredith wore hers to pre-school and we dressed up Anna as well. I think this is just the cutest cowgirl costume ever!
Arrrrrr! I'm giving a huge shout out to Grandma Schwake for making this costume! Meredith decided quite a while ago she wanted to be a pirate but I wasn't liking any of the 'costume' options. I started looking on Etsy and fell in love with a handmade pirate costume but it was $85 plus shipping. Greg was not having any of that so I bought a pattern and some fabric and Grandma put this together. It turned out soooooo cute!
Grandma Schwake and Auntie Jennifer stopped by in the evening to help hand out candy and she brought both the girls a huge pumpkin cookie!
This is the best I could get with both kids together:)
One last action shot where she's digging in awe through her loot.
