Halloween Day

Happy Halloween all! We have had a busy weekend with a pumpkin patch trip and classmate parties to last awhile. Emmalyn decided to dress up as a pink cowgirl as an excuse to wear her favorite boots, the pink cowboy style tall boots. First off, I am room mother for Em's Toddler 2 class so I had to get ready for that which started at 3:00pm and was for parents too! All the kids changed into their costumes so they could go trick-or-treating afterwards...we got the kids fruit, goldfish, and apples...all they cared about was the giant cupcakes I brought. So, sorry to all you parents that the cupcakes became the start of their sugar high for the day:)

We went Trick-or-Treating in Mountain Brook which is such a beautiful area...and where Em's school is! She got so excited practicing her words to get the candy, "Tic-oh-Tet." However, when the people would open the door she would get so quiet and stare, unless they had a dog then she would try to bark and say Hi to the dog. Em still got some candy for only doing it 30 minutes. It was such a long day that we were all tired and quit early! We all did dress up in our cowboy gear for support though...here is her and her daddy on the doorstep before school!

The night before Halloween, Emmalyn decided that she just had to have Minnie Mouse on her pumpkin! So I found a template on Disney.com, great place by the way, and printed it out. I made a special trip to the store to get the new electric pumpkin cutter, not just one store but three because the other stores had already sold out. Cause who waits till the night before??? This sweet gesture to make my child happy became the biggest chore of my life. After I cut the template out and poked all the holes into the pumpkin to begin cutting her, it was already Em's bedtime (2 1/2 hours in).

After getting her fed, bathed, and in bed...I began cutting it. Another 2 hours later you could make out what it was. I have never in my life been so focused on something so useless...don't know when I became the perfectionist! That 4 hour pumpkin looked so nice for these pictures and Em was so happy...but it was done after that because it was already Halloween!

Wilkins told me before I started cutting the pumpkin that he was not doing it this year because it was already too late and tiring. Now I see why! Next year, I think our pumpkins are just going to be smiling with little holes in them or maybe just painted on, lol!

Here she is...hope you like her!!!

Hope everyone has a safe Halloween! Love ya

Pumpkin Patch Kid

We took Emmalyn to the Pumpkin Patch at Ole Baker Farms the other weekend for Halloween. She has been obsessed with pumpkins for some reason. She just wants to hold all pumpkins close and not let anyone else mess with them! So when she saw all of them in the field she started running and screaming all over the place...it was too cute! At the patch they had all the kiddie games and petting zoo stuff, our child loved the calf's that just sat there doing nothing. Her interest in weird or boring objects makes me wonder, she must take after her dad...yes!!! We were in that patch for almost 45 minutes before she found her pumpkin. It was a cute little round orange one with a long vine! She drug that pumpkin across the field hanging on by that vine and was so proud of it... she told everyone on the hayride, "See. See. See, my pumpkin" and would just smile and point!

Dragging her pumpkin with the long vine across the field...

Daddy is so proud of his baby for doing things on her own...

In order to leave the farms you had to go through the maze to get to the cars. It was terrible- if you want to go home with a tired and whiny child you should be able to opt-out of this stupid corn maze. Luckily it only took 10 Min's to get out, but that was a very long walk for Emmalyn who was wiped out from all the excitement! Happy Fall!