Halloween Moooooo

One of the biggest holidays of the year (at least for us kids) is Halloween, and this year was no different. I had no less than FIVE Halloween celebrations heralding the season of ... hmmmm, costumes and candy?

I've been very consistent all year on what I wanted to be for Halloween and didn't waver at all. And, if you know me, there was no way I'd wear a costume if I didn't choose it myself (remember the Great Pumpkin Affair of 2009 at the Cuties' party?), so Mommy kept asking me and confirming and still waited until just a month before to order my costume -- just-in-case -- but a cow is what I wanted and a cow is what I was.

1. Fall Festival at Primrose
The Fall Festival at my school was the first event that I got to break out the Halloween gear. Since Gavin was sick, Daddy and I had a date night together. They had lots of activities and games for us to play and lots of takeaways to show off when we got home.

Ready to go. Mooooooo!

Making my very own flipbook.

Tattooed. Spooky!

With BFF Sofia. This one was in the Gatekeeper.

Showing off my fangs post-bath

2. Emily's Pumpkin Carving Party
The next day, Daddy and I had another date night, this time to Emily's annual Pumpkin Carving party. Last year, I was to little to really appreciate the art. This year, well, pumpkin insides are stinky! I watched while Daddy took care of it. He's very good at arts and crafts. :D

Emily always has the best themed treats!

Daddy carved and I did this

Playing? Now THAT I can do!

3. Dress-up at school
The Fall Festival just wasn't enough; the Friday before Halloween, we got to wear our costumes again (or in some people's cases, wear their other costume). They had a parade costume where each class walked through all the other classes to show off their garb. Mooo!

Ready for the parade

Another cow?! Mooo!

Ready to march!

4. Cuties' Party
My playgroup had their annual party at the clubhouse the day before Halloween. It's quite the affair with the whole family coming out to spend some time together, and year-after-year it seems to become a bigger and bigger event. This year, we got these incredible goodie bags, Xiao-Jiu and Gong-Gong came to take pictures, and we ended up spilling out to the back lawn just to make sure everyone would fit! It was especially nice to have Xiao-Jiu and Gong-Gong taking pictures because it's one of the few family pictures we have and it also let the parents relax knowing there were great shots capturing some of the special moments.

So glad Crystal A-Yi
(and Gong-Gong and Po-Po and Xiao-Jiu and Kirby)
came to visit!

Me and Gavin

Family shot

Logan and I exhausted after a fun morning

The whole crew together

5. Trick-or-Treating Halloween Day
Finally, finally it was Halloween night. We make sure we headed next door first to say hi to Lexi and Layton before going out the block in the wagon. After awhile, I was sort of tired (I skipped my nap that day) so I just hung out bumping up and down in my little red wagon until we got back to Sofia's house to play. The only bummer to the whole thing was Mommy's candy basket got stolen! Not only did someone take the all of the candy she left out on the porch, they took the whole basket!

On the search for goodies

Pooped

Since Halloween is the 31st, it means that we've finally wrapped up October! You can see more pics in our October album, and come back soon to see about November!

Fun Days

Just some other random things from October ...

Daddy and I made pizza from scratch.
We did a pretty awesome job, if I do say so myself.

I took Gavin for a ride at the mall.
What a backseat driver he turned out to be!

One of my favorite things is playing tag ... or racing ... or maybe it's tag.

We enjoyed the last of the warm days.
Until next Spring, I guess!

Mommy and Daddy got me a touch-screen computer so that I can play online by myself.
That pesky mouse gave me some troubles, so this works awesome!

My boo-boo healed (here it is after the bandages fell off and the bruise had mostly faded), but I'll always have a litle scar to remember the incident.

I got a special surprise gift (we got booed?) on the porch.
I did not hesitate to open and enjoy it.

I picked a magic pumpkin at school: pumpkins that sprout overnight from seeds!

Getting booed? Magic pumkin? That means ... yes, Halloween! And with all the activities around that "holiday", it definitely gets its own posting.

Of course, lots more to see in our October album!

Quick Austin Trip

We went down to Austin for a weekend to see some of my favorite people. Auntie Daphne and Uncle Drew were in town for a wedding, so we wanted to stop by and say hello. When we got into town, we headed to Kirby's house first (and Xiao-Jiu and Crystal A-Yi, of course). It was a beautiful day, so we went on a walk through their neighborhood and got to play at Kirby's park. Later, we all snuggled in for a nice evening at home.

Kirby, like this!

Where'd she go?

Happy family

The next day, we went to see Auntie Daphne and Uncle Drew at my Cousin James and his new baby sister (and my new cousin!) Tessa's house. It was a wonderful surprise to also find Ye-Ye and Nai-Nai there!

James! It's so good to see you!

Hello, baby Tessa. I can't wait until we can play together.

Giddy-up

We managed to squeeze in a Pee family picture, and the two younger Pee daddies tried to get their usual "kids on couch" shot ... it's getting harder and harder to wrangle us!

Four pairs of hands for four grandkids. Perfect!

It's a little harder with 2 kids each, huh?

On the way home, I had to stop and potty in the middle of NOWHERE (plus Gavin's going through this "wah, I don't want to ride in my carseat, wah!" phase), so we pulled over in a parking lot. In the olden days (like when Mommy was young), Po-Po would just hold her bum-bum out to pee-pee on the ground, but I had my handy-dandy travel potty that Mommy carries everywhere. A whole potty comes out of this little backpack, unfolds, and presto! Pee-pee in a bag that you throw away! It's been a huge luxury especially in situations just like this.

What fun we had! I don't know how we managed to not get ANY pictures of playing with games with Crystal A-Yi, running around with Auntie Daphne and Uncle Drew, or me trying out the cool touchscreen machine that cousin James has, but I guess that happens when you're having fun. There are, however, a few extra pictures in our October album. Plus, it just means we need to try and get together another time!

Big Boo-Boo

Just a quick posting to show you my boo-boo that I got. You know how there are accidents and then there are freak accidents that you have no idea how it could have happened? Well ... so I was just standing in the kitchen and I fell backwards over the back leg of Gavin's high chair. When I fell, I landed underneath the chair. So boo-boo on my bum-bum? Nope. A cut on my eyelid. Crazy, right?

Owwie!

It was just Mommy, me, and Gavin at home, so she quickly assessed the situation (deep cut, over the eye, potential head wound, immediate bruising) and decided to take me to Acute Kids where they -- well, gave me a popsicle first, yay! -- told Mommy that because of the location, I would either need a stitch or glue. Deciding that since it was just her with the two of us munchkins, glue would work well enough.

A popsicle makes everything feel better

Waiting with our hand turkeys

I did a pretty good job; they put a drop of glue and gave me two tiny strips of bandaid to hold it all together. The bandaids were supposed to stay for about a week, but the first fell off that night (it got stuck in my hair) and the second one about 3 days later.

If I play it up, I'll get more sympathy

I was very brave through the whole thing, and getting to watercolor afterwards helped, too. I thought the overalls without a shirt look was a nice touch; makes me look quite the tomboy, eh?

Boo-boo, what? Where?

All this and more in our October photo album!

Arboretum Fall Festival

Of course we made our annual trip out to the Arboretum with Jacob this year. By now, we were very familiar with the drill and set out to play immediately.

A quick pose

And we're off!

Hold hands? Ewww!

We spent most of our time this year in the big field. We ran around, got our faces painted, and played a REALLY long time in the hay. I was so happy with my facepaint ("I'm a beautiful butterfly, Mommy!") until a lady asked me on the way out, "what happened to you, little girl?". I got scared and kept asking Mommy, "what happened to me, Mommy?!" until she washed it off when we got home.

Joining in on the Strollerfit class

Trying to sit still

Check out my masterpiece!

We're like superheroes

I'm the king of the mountain!

"Ah!" ... "Ah!"

Sneaking into a class picture

One shot with Mommy

What a fantastic time (as always)! There are some pretty good shots of us in all the pumpkin-y wonder, so I definitely encourge you to check out all the other pics in our super-special Arboretum-only photo album!