Halloween Day; Take Three

Some friends of ours were getting together on Halloween night to grill hotdogs and then trick-or-treat together and we were lucky enough to be invited. There were six kids there in total and they were running, climbing, riding and having so much fun!


Perpetual Motion saw this tricycle and immediately had to get on. She had a really tough time pushing herself forward, but didn't seem to mind.


This car was a huge success. She loooooved it; she even had some trouble allowing others to play with it. As in she would be done and get off and go do something else. Then another kid would go to play with it and HOLY SMOKES she needed to be on that car RIGHT NOW. So, we had some practice with sharing and taking turns and being upset when we don't get our way.


This little girl is only a few months older than Perpetual Motion. She has two older siblings and therefore knows how to do many things that PM doesn't have a clue about. I would show you other photos of all the children, but seriously, they were moving soooo fast that I couldn't get any good shots! There were a couple of rock stars and some super heroes.


We had dinner, which consisted of PM grabbing the hotdog off of the plate before I could cut it up and downing it in less than two minutes. She may have been hungry. Then we changed into costumes, and her first reaction was What is this?


Then she got into it a little more and stomped around like we had been announcing her and applauding.


And then? THEN we got the PUMPKIN. THAT was THE BEST EVER.


Oh, yeah. We all dressed up. I figure we should for as long as we can manage it. So here we are, The Mad Hatter, Queen of Hearts, and Alice. Considering I sometimes feel like I must be living in Wonderland, it is all very appropriate!

PM had a good time trick-or-treating. I could only convince her to go up to the first door by telling her that there was a dog that lives there. Then, once we rang the bell and the man opened the door, she totally tried to just walk right into the house and love on the dog. She cared nothing about anything else...until he put some candy in her pumpkin. That was A-mazing. She took it out and put it in and then decided that she just HAD to hold one piece while we walked from house to house.

Mmm - warm melty chocolate.

She was very good at saying Thank-you. She rang the doorbells, sometimes more than once, and finally, at the last house (we only went to about five or six), she said Trick-or-Treat.

All in all, Halloween was a success!

Halloween Day; Take Two

After Perpetual Motion woke from her nap and played a little while outside, we carved our pumpkin. She seemed interested in it at first and then she appeared to get quite concerned with the fact that parts of her pumpkin were not in her pumpkin any more. She loves pumpkins, shouts their name, says hello to them, climbs into neighbors' yards to touch them and see them...so I can understand her concern. Here is a photo-story of carving the pumpkin:

I don't know what this bowl and spoon are for, but I'm ready!


What is Mama doing?


Whoa - what is THAT?


It feels kinda icky...


Let me get a closer look at this stuff.


Daddy, you missed a spot!


Two hands...


Let me try it this way...


There we go; let's cover that up, Daddy.


Oh, No!

There you have it - the pumpkin to Jack-o-Lantern process with a 17-month-old. Tomorrow I'll have some photos up of our evening, including our costumes!

Halloween Day; Take One

I apologize, but I must interrupt our regularly scheduled posting to fill you in on our very busy Halloween Weekend 2009:

This past weekend was a very busy one for all of us here at casa Clementina. For starters, a play house that friends of ours dropped off a week ago was finally put together on the patio for Perpetual Motion to enjoy.


She found it fabulous. It took us a week to put it together because Houston was Rain Central last week. Boy, was it fun to be stuck inside all week long. Since the rains have stopped, we've been outside every day multiple times.


This house? It is great for her. She can open and close the door, the shutters, and there is even a small tunnel-like exit in the back of the structure.


Then there's the grill. Those knobs? They click and clack when you turn them and that is so much fun to do! There's also a phone inside, WITH BUTTONS, and she loves to pretend to be on the phone as well as pushing buttons on anything that has them.

I must tell you about a birthday party we received an invitation to. It says Calling All Superheroes and that costumes are encouraged.

Well.

We don't have any superhero costumes, but Rocket Man had a very good idea. We are thinking she can go as Aqua Woman:


Oh, yeah.

On her head is one of the bottoms to a bathing suit she wore this summer. I think she can wear that as her hat and then we'll just make up the rest of the outfit as we go.


So that was our morning. Aqua Woman made an appearance, and then we played on our slide and in the house outside.

Take Two is on its way...