Happy Halloween!

It's no big secret that Halloween is kind of a big deal in our house.  I think Blake might even say it is his favorite holiday.  So needless to say, the month of October was filled with pumpkins, costumes, candy, and a couple ghosts and goblins.  Just around the corner from us is a great produce store which has pumpkins and a corn maze during October.  While we didn't do the corn maze since we figured Sydney didn't have the attention span/interest this year, they also have some cool activites for the little ones like a hay ride, play equipment and corn crib.  Sydney's favorite was picking out pumpkins!

On Halloween, we carved our pumpkins.  It was freezing, so I bundled Sydney up and then put one of Blake's t-shirts on her to keep her clothes clean of all the pumpkin goop.  Well, that was a waste, and I should have known it.  She was intrigued with watching us carve, but she wanted no active part.  I shouldn't have been surprised, the girl hates being dirty!

We started asking Sydney pretty early on what she wanted to dress up as for Halloween.  She immediately said a "T-rex".  I wasn't sure if her two year old mind would change frequently, but she kept saying T-rex for a couple of weeks so we finally ended up buying her a dinosaur costume.  She didn't love the hat piece, but she made the cutest T-rex ever, in my humblest of opinions. 

Sophie- also dressed as a dinosaur, per Sydney's request of course!

Trick-or-treating was especially fun this year.  Sydney caught on real quick that getting candy is a lot of fun.  We heard "wanna get more candy" frequently.  I bet we went to about 10 houses, and she walked and carried her candy bag the entire time.  It was definitely a fun time!