Trick-or-Treat!!

Halloween. The Muffin really got into all of the festivities this year! We started by decorating our pumpkins. The Muffin had a fun Mrs. Potato Head kit for her pumpkin, while Momma and Daddy "cheated" using templates.

Then it was time for getting on her Ballerina Dragon Costume!

You know she's super cute!!

Stopping to pose by our three pumpkins!

So excited to get started!

So...Off we go!

It didn't take me long to get the hang of it! Trick-or-Treat!! She marched up to doors, knocked and said "Trick or Treat!" and waited patiently for her candy!

We walked and walked.

And stopped for some Cider and Donuts...then walked some more! We were out for an hour and a half before she announced that she was tired and wanted to go home! Before going home we stopped in at Great Grandma's and Aunt M's to show off her costume and begging abilities! Walking up the front walk Muffin said "It's so hard to walk!" which we assumed meant her legs were heavy and tired and the costume was adding to it! But once home she perked right up and began digging through her fat loot! She even got to eat a few pieces! She was thrilled to see that she got Play-Doh, Crayons, Pencils, a Toy, a Ring, Money (some dude gave her five bucks!!), chips, pretzels, crackers and lots and lots and LOTS of candy!

She was so happy! We even let her keep quite a bit to snack on in the days to come! After we were done Daddy read her her favorite Halloween book "By the Light of the Halloween Moon" (also known as the tickely toes book in this house) before bed.

Clearly she just LOVES her Daddy! It was a great day and everyone had a ton of fun!

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Check out this photo of the Muffin in a birds egg!! I mean how awesome and perfect can you get?? The better part was that she asked to get in it. She must've seen other kids in it. I gotta hand it to the zoo, they sure do have a great kid's education center!!

The big preparation!

The muffin has been learning all about Halloween these past couple of weeks. Daddy and I have been reading her fun Halloween books. Cliffords First Halloween and By the Light of the Halloween Moon are her favorites! We spent a few days this week pumpkin hunting and carving and getting her Ballerina Dragon costume ready for the big event. She was very excited to get everything ready and in order this evening and is so excited to go knock on every ones door and say "Trick or treat!", she's already a pro!
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Diva Pumpkin!

The finished product!
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Pumpkin Fun

Momma and daddy took me to the turkey farm today where we played in little houses, went through a maze, played on a castle and a ship and fed some chickens. The piggy was a naughty pants and tried to bite momma, but I gave him a good talking to about that! We also picked out pumpkins to decorate for Halloween and came home to have fun with them. I have a Potato Head kit to decorate my pumpkin with! It turned out quite fun! Momma carved a skeleton in her pumpkin and daddy carved a silly face! I had to go to bed before they we're all done so momma and daddy are gonna wait to put candles in them until tomorrow night. I just know I'm gonna love that! I've been very excited about going Trick-or-Treating this year. Momma and daddy have been reading me all kinds of Halloween books and showing me pictures from last years adventure! Everyday I talk about it! This year momma is taking me to her families hay ride on Saturday, and then Sunday were gonna go in our neighborhood with daddy too! I am very excited. This year momma's even gonna let me have a tiny but of candy!
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Its all a balancing act!

This morning the muffin learned to stand on one foot! She picked it up like a pro!
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Maybe its a mustache!

The muffin did this today at story time. It has eyes, the dots are his nose, he has a mouth and those semi-vertical lines? Who knows, maybe its a mustache!? Its the first face she's really drawn here at home.
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Small steps!

The muffin? Well she gets nervous about crowds of kids, especially ones she doesn't know. Story time at the library is a classic example. I have to pry her off of me! But today I told her she had to sit on the rug and I would sit back a ways in a chair. After a few minutes of not letting her off the rug she inched her way over to the huge dog pillow to sit down. She ended up about 8 feet from me! We'd stand up to sing and she would edge back to the edge of the rug by me, but as soon as the song was over she'd rush on back over to the dog pillow. It was quite funny. I'm glad she is slowly venturing out.
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Walkin' to the beat of our own drum!

The muffin and I walked around the track this evening while the high school marching band and color guard practiced on the field! The muffin just loves hearing the drums and was in awe as we walked within a few feet of them while they played! At the time of this post we had done 3 laps around the track!! The muffin had a great time running too!
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Exercise at the zoo

We're using our zoo pass to take the opportunity to exercise at the zoo today! Lots of walking, but we're taking out time to look a little too!
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A day at the zoo!

I took Gramma to the zoo and aquarium today so I could show her all the fishies!!
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Waiting on the train!

We went to pick Gramma up from the train station so she could stay with us for a few days! I loved being in the train station looking out the window and when Gramma's train pulled in I was very excited! The train was really big and noisy and rumbled! I ran to momma and grabbed her leg! The attendant let momma take me up on the train real fast so that I could take a peek. I love trains!
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Open wide and say ah!

We're at the doctor's office waiting for the doctor to come in and take a look at the boo boo's in my mouth. Last time we were here the doctor asked me to open my mouth, stick out my tongue and say ah! And I just didn't know how! So momma and I have been practicing! Now I am a pro! We practiced a little before the doctor came in, just so that I could remember what to do when I saw him! When he did come in I did a really great job and remembered just what to do! Then they had to swab me for strep throat and even though I didn't like it, and it made me gag, and it hurt my boo boo, I kept my mouth open real wide! I did such a great job that momma let the nurse give me a sucker!! Turns out I have swollen nodes, a few fever rashes on my nose, tummy and bottom and a bacterial infection, but not strep. Momma was a lot happier with this doctor than the last one and believes he really checked me out. So I get an antibiotic and if I'm real lucky momma will walk me down to DQ.
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Leaves in the stream

We took the muffin to the park for a bit and introduced her to the thrill of throwing sticks and leaves into the streaming and watching how far they'd float before getting stick! She became an instant pro.
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Cider and donuts and deer!

We all went out to a small local apple orchard this evening and enjoyed some fresh cider and donuts. I picked out a small pumpkin because it was so cute. Then we went and fed a deer and a llama and a billy goat. We even saw a chicken sitting on the back of a billy goat who was walking around, but it was getting dark and momma's picture didn't turn out real nice. I had a really nice time walking around looking at everything, feeding and seeing all of the different animals, carrying my pumpkin in one hand and my cider in the other. My cider came in a special pumpkin sippy that I picked out and thought was pretty great.
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Parade fun!

The muffin and her bids waiting for the homecoming parade to start!
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