Halloween Celebrations

We had the pleasure of going to Killeen, TX (where my brother lives) to have a fun Halloween celebration with my brother, Sister in Law, my Dad and Andrea, and my niece and nephew Jacob and Grace. Kimberly-my sister in law-decided to go all out and dress up with the kids as all the characters from The Wizard of Oz. Kimberly was The Lion, Allen was The Tin Man, Grace was Dorothy and Jacob was the Scarecrow. They were super cute. Andrea and my Dad decided to join in and Andrea went as The Wicked Witch and my Dad went as a munchkin. They were all so fun! Since I had already bought Annabelle's costume, we could not participate in the Wizard of Oz theme, but we did make our own story with Little Red Riding Hood.

As you can tell, Italo was the hunter who saved the day, Annabelle was Little Red Riding Hood and I was the wolf disguised as Granny.

Here is Annabelle with her cousins, Jacob and Grace

Grace and Annabelle with their baskets!

Here is Annabelle playing the part of Little red Riding Hood very well and picking flowers instead of staying on the path to granny's house!

My "Red" is SUCH A DELIGHT!

Several people have asked me if Annabelle was scared of my costume--and as you can imagine---NO. She is not scared of anything! But, several kids at the carnival we went to were very scared. One little boy was so worried about me, his mom asked me to take off the mask, so he could see I was a normal person! Who knew I would scare kids......The mask was VERY uncomfortable and I will certainly not be doing that again in coming years!

Annabelle loved the carnival we went to-they had slides and bounce houses which are her favorite! I spent most of my time trying to look out of the little holes in my mask to see where she went and chase her around! Some people thought I was acting out the story, but I was just trying to keep up with her! Italo was great to stay on top of her knowing that I could not really do much with her on my own!

After the carnival we went Trick or Treating...However, Annabelle did not like it at ALL! She wanted to stay at each person's house and get to know them! The first house we got to-we rang the doorbell and no one answered. Annabelle had a huge fit because she could not go into the house. I finally convinced her to go to the next person's house and get her candy and she did not care about the candy at all-she just wanted to guy to pick her up and take her inside with him.....SCARY! We decided to try one more house and she again really wanted to go into the house. We finally gave up. Since I am a mean momma wolf (as I was called all night), I did not let Annabelle eat any of her candy, except for one sucker that I let her try. (Only after much encouragement from my Dad and Andrea) She actually really liked it! She was A MESS after she was done with it, but it was fun seeing her enjoy it so much! Andrea would ask her for a lick and she would say NO and stick it in her mouth! She must have really liked it to be that selfish:)