Happy Halloween!!!

So the wait is over...Chelsea's costume this year, a nurse! And the colors, green and orange, for leukemia awareness. This was my first home-made costume, not too bad!

Here she is after the Halloween party Sunday and trick or treating at all the grandparents houses.


And here she is tonight. Notice anything different?


Yep! Mama got her hair cut ... this was her first real hair cut! She wasn't thrilled about the cape, so we just took off her shirt. She wasn't thrilled about holding still either, so I was pulling out all the tricks. She ended up playing with the cell phone of the gal cutting her hair. What a woman...always on the phone!


Here are a couple "BEFORE" pix:



and "AFTER" pic trick or treating tonight:


We had a lot of fun trick or treating this year. It only took one or two houses before Chelsea had the whole thing figured out. She was eager to follow Logan up to the houses, knocking, ringing door bells, grabbing handfuls of candy and dropping them into her bag, and helping herself into peoples homes (yes really, I had to chase her into one man's kitchen, I think she was cold and was ready to call it a night.) After about 6 houses she chewed through one of the candy wrappers and realized there was chocolate inside, then decided to change her strategy. She then began to take just one piece of candy, turn around and run in the opposite direction. She was not wanting to drop the candy into her bag, she wanted to take it and eat it! She became really serious about it, she was afraid when she put her candy in the bag it disappeared forever!

Logan was equally mischievous tonight. In fact he taught Chelsea early on it was much more efficient to grab a handful of candy instead of just choosing one, and when people replied, "it's okay, take more" he REALLY took more! Of course everyone on the block was trying to get rid of their candy because we're one of only two families on the street with kids under 35, and the other family with kids went trick or treating somewhere else. The last house we stopped at there was a man dressed up in a creepy costume, face painted and all. Logan didn't take his eyes off of him. He stood there waiting for candy, but his eyes were wide and he couldn't believe that there was a grown up in a costume. When we left he said, "he was a nice stranger ... right mom?" Once I reassured him that it was a nice man, he decided he wanted to tell everyone at school about the nice monster he saw.

I worked all day with Chelsea trying to teach her to say 'trick or treat', I got nothing, so we tried, 'tick teat', still nothing, so finally I tried, 'tttttt' and she could say that beautifully! Hey, you've got to start somewhere!

Spider man is giving his best pose for the camera, and Chelsea is thinking ... uh?