Audrey's first Halloween was a success. She was the cutest giraffe on the block.
I am actually really proud of my Halloween picture planning. The weather was supposed to be awful today, and it was it rained all day. So, with that in mind I took Audrey's picture in her costume yesterday when it was beautiful outside. That is winning.
Baby girl has no idea what candy is, what trick-or-treating is, or what Halloween is and therefore had no Halloween expectations. Neither of us felt compelled to take her out trick-or-treating in the rain, it did stop for a bit but whatever, we weren't sure how we were going to make the timing work anyway. However, we did want to do something with her. Enter trick-or-treating at the mall. It was just what we wanted we got five pieces of candy, people oooed and ahhed over the adorable giraffe, and then Audrey went and played at the mall play area. Which she loves by the way. It was clearly her favorite part of the evening, though she did enjoy shaking the candy in her pumpkin. JT and I ate the candy on the way back to the car, because when your kid doesn't know what candy is you can just eat it and move on. Again, winning.
We aren't total jerks, next year Audrey can have her candy. Or at least most of it, but she is too young this year.
We also failed to carve pumpkins this year. But Audrey did get to pick a pumpkin at the "pumpkin patch" at the nature center and I put a glitter face on it for her. And she got to play with pumpkin guts at a Halloween party, so she got a deconstructed pumpkin carving experience. We'll carve pumpkins next year, I promise.
Add stealing Halloween candy from your children to the list of unexpected parenting perks.
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