Halloween 2010

We had such a great Halloween weekend! Saturday afternoon our neighborhood had a fall festival, complete with a petting zoo, inflatables, BBQ dinner, a band, monster face beach balls, and trunk-or-treating. Cousin Kohen ("guh-guh" as Charleigh CONSTANTLY says lately...she LOVES her cousin, who's much more like a big brother) and Aunt Meg joined us for the festivities. Charleigh loved the goats, dog, bunnies, and pigs at the petting zoo, pointing at the animals and saying the sounds they make, rather than calling them by what they are; she had fun on the inflatable jump house with a climbing wall and slide; and trunk-or-treating. She really didn't "get" it, but Kohen helped her out. If he was given one piece of candy, he would say, "Carleigh wants one", and if he was given two pieces, he would put one in her bucket for her. It was VERY sweet!

Feeding the goat an animal cracker

Petting the pig and snorting

Reaching for a bunny rabbit

Coming over the top of the climbing wall in the inflatable jump house

At the top, getting ready to slide

Wee!

She has figured out how to sit down at the top of the slide and come down feet first on her bottom!

Such a big girl!

Sunday evening, Halloween Day, we dressed Charleigh in her ladybug costume. We did the best we could getting pictures, but she is not one for posing for pictures right now...like it or not, what we capture is what we get at this point! Charleigh's bedtime is around 6:45, so we went down in our cul-de-sac to play with all the neighbor kids a little early and we visited 3 houses to get candy all before dark. Maybe next year she'll be more "into" Halloween and want to go to all the houses on our street and collect as much as she can in her bucket.

Getting into her costume

Sweet little girl!

She didn't mind the hood at all.

I tried to get her to pose with her little pumpkin, but instead all I got was a VERY silly girl!

Getting ready to try a Twix, Daddy's favorite. I'm sad to report that Charleigh HATES chocolate!