Halloween II

You may recall this post from last week; we spent Halloween in the ER with Cordelia. Thankfully her issues have resolved themselves and she was ready to celebrate Halloween yesterday. We have some amazing friends who were willing to dole out a few pieces of vegan candy to our girl.



She donned her Snow White costume and was ready to go. A side note about that wig...it is an adult sized wig, but she insisted. Interestingly she wanted to wear the wig so she'd have the same hair color as her sister, not to look more like Snow White. She also wore the wig to breakfast, but backwards.  We sent messages to our wonderful friends that we were on our way. The first stop was at her BFF Sadie's house. Sadie was happy to put on a fairy costume for the occasion.



We stopped at a few other places and each time Cordelia was so sweet and adorable. Each person was gifted with a thankful hug by our little lady. When we got into the car she would say, "Oh that sure was nice of them to give me candy." She is heart meltingly sweet, this daughter of ours. Elise was mercifully asleep (have I mentioned that she hates riding in the car with an undying passion?).






Once the trick or treating had reached its conclusion we had a hayride to attend. So we continued on, Cordelia still in costume. Elise awoke just a few minutes before we arrived. She was in a great mood and her Grandma Sue opted to watch her while we took a little hayride with my father.





The hayride turned out to be hay-less, but it was fun!











Finally my father took Cordelia for a little play time in the leaf pile.







Halloween II was da bomb!

Happy Halloween Monster Blog

OK I am going to lay it out straight for you....I took a lot of photos this weekend. We have had a wonderful Halloween weekend and I promise to show you no more than 10% of the photos I have taken. Regardless, this is still a MONSTER BLOG (please read this dramatically, even in your head...perhaps a booming voice with an echo), and so very fitting considering that it is in fact Halloween! So, loosen your belt because you are about to be served a heaping dish of MONSTER BLOG!

Saturday we got ready for two Halloween parties. A big step up from last year's events of nothing and nothing else. We prepped our costumes, planning to go as a family theme, but when Cordelia requested her pirate dress (again) we relented and let her do her own thing.

Here is a hint....



We went as mimes. The costumes were a cinch, but who knew that white make-up would be such a hassle. We finally figured it out and piled into the car for our parties. I mentioned to Eric that it sounded like the beginning of a bad joke, two mimes and a pirate get into a compact car...


Family miming


Trapped in a box and pull the rope were the only moves in my mime bag.


Eric had a few special mime moves too.


Mimes and pirates living together in harmony

We went to our two parties. Cordelia was frightened by most of the night...she was not a fan of strangers in costume, but she recovered quickly and we spent the rest of our evening miming and playing with gourds (don't ask).

Sunday Cordelia and I attended a hayride. We had a marvelous time! I can't wait for next year.



We drove out of town a bit to a family farm. The day was surprisingly warm, about 60F. There was hay, there were lovely people, there were a few animals (hopefully companion animals...the vegan in me is hopeful).




Cordelia with her Grandpa


Cordelia with her Grandma

The hay ride was wonderful...though we did go through a strangely bright green field, everything else was the natural brown of the season.






While we were forcing Cordelia to pose on hay bales (because we are apparently incapable of just letting a hay bale pass us by) we heard the few cows mooing. She got really excited and thought that they were calling her. She took off running toward them. When she finally arrived she exclaimed, "Hey cows. I made it!" Then she proceeded to moo at them.


I love cows. I really do.


I mean look at those sweet feet (hooves).

Sunday night we were finally able to carve (wink) out time in our schedule to carve (you get it) pumpkins!




Today I am super excited to pass out vegan candy as I am sure that this will be the first year EVER that we have more than a couple of trick-or treaters!!!

Incidentally it also happens to be my 4 year blog anniversary!