Happy Halloween! Kara celebrated her second Halloween this year. This time around she was more aware of everything going on, and getting into it. She is 17 months old, and walking around carrying her candy bag, wearing her costume, and knows that these little wrapped items are CANDY! She had a tootsie roll in her hand carrying it all around the house, then discovered it was something to eat and was biting into it WITH the wrapper still on it. This was a little messy trying to get the remaining wrapper off for her to eat the rest of the piece of candy properly...as she was chewing a mouth full of tootsie roll, she said, "mmmm"... I got a kick out of it.
There is about half of her candy stash that she cannot eat, due to being a chocking hazard, or too chewy, or too hard. Leaving about half of her loot for us to nibble on here and there. It is a big bowl of candy just sitting on the counter in the kitchen, and it is hard not to just grab a bite sized chocolate or two...Eating these daily is not so good for the waist line.
I go all year not eating much candy, and then this past week is candy every day!? Talk about a sugar overload! I must get rid of this bowl or at least hold myself back from snacking on it daily! Kara doesn't eat it every day. I throw bits of candy into Andrew's lunches for his work. Anyone want some 3 Musketeers? or a Chocolate bar? Please? Help me eat some!?
Kara dressed up as a ladybug. I made her costume out of some felt from the fabric store and a cute set of red wings for her to wear. I also drew on her face with my lip liner, some antennas and a little bug nose. She looked adorable. When we went to trick or treat Andrew brought the dog along to walk with us. We started out having Kara walk but could barely get to the house next door fast enough, and I ran into the garage and grabbed her wagon. She liked being pulled in the wagon around the neighborhood collecting candy and seeing all the other kids in costume. Towards the end thow she wasn't wanting to get out of the wagon anymore to walk up to the doors. Andrew took her up to a few doors and most houses had people in their driveways sitting around fire pits with their candy to pass out. We had a blast and walked pretty far, farther than I had thought we would.
