Halloween

Halloween has become one of my favourite days of the year since having Sydney!  It is such a fun holiday for kids and every year with her just gets better and better as she understands more of what's going on and is more into the festivities!

This year was no excpetion!  Sydney was dressed as her all time favourite, Hello Kitty.  She looked absolutely adorable in her little costume, complete with her face painted with a little yellow nose and black whiskers, a hairband with kitty ears and a bow and her Hello Kitty fancy shoes on!

The weather today was absolutely brutal.  It poured rain harder than it has in weeks!  Of all the days! Sydney was so excited to get out trick or treating and could have cared less what the weather was doing.  She asked me about a dozen times between four and five o'clock if it was time to go out yet.  By a quarter past five, I couldn't hold out any longer and we braved the weather to head out.  Sydney carried her ladybug umbrella and her candy bucket the whole time!  What a girl!

We had so much fun visiting the houses that we had seen yesterday decorated with all of the fun decorations in their yards.  Sydney was so happy to get a bucket of candy and decided that it was more fun to choose her own candy than have someone put it in the bucket for her!  Luckily, most of our neighbors were super generous with their candy and had mercy on us as we were out in the monsoon, and gave her heaps of candy.  She stayed out for a full 45 minutes before declaring that she was tired and wanted to go home.

Our last stop was our neighbor Sandy's house.  She always hands out cans of pop for the older kids and juice boxes for the little ones.  She gave Sydney a juice box tonight, Sydney wrinkled her nose up at it, handed it back to her and said "I don't like this."  It was so funny.  Syd really doesn't like juice, and she was a little confused as to why she wasn't getting more candy.  It took me a few minutes to convince her to take the juice box and say thank you just to be polite!

We got home, a little soggy but oh so happy, and Sydney sat down in the foyer and emptied her Hello Kitty bucket out to sort her candy out and show Daddy what she'd collected.  She chose two pieces of candy to eat tonight, her all time faves licorice and Smarties and then packed all the rest of the candy safely back into the bucket.

We spent the next hour handing candy out to trick-or-treaters coming to our door, Sydney absolutely loved giving candy to the kids.  In fact, when our bowl was getting low, because she was handing fistfuls out a time, she took some of her own candy from her bucket and put it in the bowl to give away!

It was such fun going out with her tonight despite the weather!

Our day started on a special note as I set up a special Halloween breakfast for Sydney with a new Halloween plate and bowl that I had bought for her.  She was thrilled to see it all set out for her when she woke up and loved that I made her a Halloween card too!

When she got to school this morning, the teacher was busy getting everything organized to make challah with the kids today.  Sydney had great fun helping with the mixing and measuring the ingredients.

We spent a quiet afternoon at home, anticipating much excitement tonight.  Had some tiger ice cream in keeping with today's theme:

And painted some thank you cards for Sydney's birthday gifts:

And spent some time pouring over the new Toys R Us catalogue that came in today's mail.  I love that Sydney got herself a pen and circled all of the things that she wanted in the catalogue.

It really was perfect timing that the catalogue arrived today, as we just got Sydney's birthday cheque from Grandma and Grandpa in the mail yesterday and we're dying to spend it at the toy store!  Will have to make a special trip there next week to blow her birthday money!

Happy Halloween everyone!  Hope you had tons of fun!