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A’s First Halloween

I know I said it already in this post, but this girl makes the holidays so much fun. Don’t get me wrong the past years of seeing the cute little trick-or-treaters coming to our door has always been fun…except for last year when I was far to pregnant to be getting up and down 50+ times to pass out candy so I accidentally blew up the door bell in my effort to make it “not ringable” and Ryan had to disconnect the newly broken door bell before it caught the house on fire but that’s a completely different story for a different day I suppose.
This year, as I said before we got to share our first halloween as parents and I purchased the owl hat from Knotty Boutique Co. as a plan to give it to A for her birthday coming up in a few weeks but then it ended up inspiring the idea for a DIY halloween costume. I sewed the base and then tacked on the fleece feathers.  I had so much fun doing it.
We skipped carving pumpkins this year since it’s not really an activity for an 11 month old to join in on, so I just painted her little one and stuck her foot prints on another. So naturally, we needed a first annual Halloween shoot! 

Last night we drove to her Great-Grandmas house and did her first trick or treating there. They were all ready for A with some homemade cookies, rubber frogs, and an Apple. She just beamed with excitement. We decided it would be fun to trick-or-treat around their neighborhood since we trust it a bit more than we trust ours, so we did about 10 houses. We got so many “ooooooh! She’s just the cutest!” and then we had the awkward lady who thought she was a turkey… uh…yeah…she’s a turkey…clearly… not. Once we said…”uhm, no she’s an owl but close…” she said “oh I totally see it now!” naturally…

At first A was super shy when people would come to the door but then she would let us put her down and she would just wait and smile, the real excitement came when one of the people let her pick her own item from the bowl, her face couldn’t have been filled with a bigger smile. By golly, she was sure proud of that shiny Twix she picked out, too bad it’s not on the list of things she’s ready for. She did get some items that she can eat, including the goodies that we picked up for her to make sure her trick or treating wasn’t a total bust on the treat scale. 🙂  The weather was a bit chilly and was quite windy so we didn’t stay out longer than maybe 20 minutes, but she had a good time. She spent the rest of the evening with her doting great grandparents who are always laughing at our sweet girl.

We had so much fun with our Little Owl for her First Halloween! Now it’s on to her birthday in two weeks, thanksgiving in three, our anniversary in four and a half, and then Christmas in just under two months! So many exciting things to celebrate with this girl and although Thanksgiving and Christmas will be her technical “second” Thanksgiving and Christmas this year is going to be filled with so much excitement!! 🙂

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  1. […] Like last year, I made A’s Halloween costume. She make an awesome monkey sound and loves monkey’s right now so a monkey costume. We looked at a remade costume but apparently we weren’t the only ones that thought monkeys were a great costume this year, so finally I decided it would be just as fast to just make one and actually a little bit cheaper. I love making things for A so I didn’t mind. I got a hoody and pants, some felt and a chanelle stem for her tail and to perk up her ears. I then got some tulle to make a tutu because this girl loves frills right now and dressing up is a blast, right now. So I went for it. […]

  2. […] far, every year I’ve let A pick what she wants to be and I make her a costume. Her first year she was an owl, last year she was a monkey and this year she chose a zebra. I never stress about the costume, I […]

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