Happy Halloween!

Lola had quite the first Halloween experience!

Who knew there would be so many costume changes and multiple nights to celebrate!! No worries Lola ,mommy is now “in the know” and Gigi has already bought you two more costumes for next year!

Your strawberry one was SO cute from Gigi and oh did you know it! When you put it on!! We decided to do a few “practice runs” to get you all ready for the big day!

Daddy came home from work and found  you like this…..

  At this point he was just as excited as mommy about your first Halloween and we can all “only imagine” how nauseating that must have been ;) We took you to an annual Halloween Festival near our house and you loved taking it all in! 

You “went fishing” for ducks but attempted to confiscate them so we spent most of our time sitting at the “pond” letting you hold them because we have now gotten to the “personality” stage where you shriek if we take things away from you that we like…

So naturally we do what any good parent would do… we don’t take ANYTHING away from you ;)

At least without replacing it without something else that’s super fun- like mommy and daddy taking you on a hayride!! 

The hayride landed us at a “bond fire and smore station!

If only we had worn our pumpkin outfit this night ;)      The day before Halloween I suddenly remembered “We don’t have a Halloween candy bucket for Lola!”! Lou had no idea this was a thing people do… apparently the kid always used a pillow case… would you expect anything less?

Here we come Target!!

Was I blessed with the best shopping buddy ever or what!??

Two hours later and we HAVE a trick or treat bucket!

It hink i promised in the previous blog to get a pbetter picture of Lola out front with the pumpkins……

This was my “better”.

Can you tell she spotted her daddy in the yard??   What better time to finally test out our wagon from Grampa and Jammy than Halloween!  

I was so nervous about her sliding from side to side but she sat up SO well in it and LOVED the ride!!

   You wouldn’t have guessed that at all though would you! 

It’s now Lola’s new favorite thing to do… …go check the mail in her wagon! 

Friday finally came and as you can imagine…..we were SO ready!!

I took off to spend the whole day with my girl and our first stop was lunch with daddy and a new big girl pair of shoes!

So our downtown lunch date turned into a Cafe 33 lunch date when daddy called to say he was taking off for the rest of the day to spend with us!

It was a good thing because Lola was WAY too excited about Halloween to take an afternoon nap anyway….

I wonder where she gets her holiday cheer???

So much for the nap, we welcomed my parents and got Lola all ready for her official FIRST HALLOWEEN!

We decided to go to a “trick or treat” festival in Woodstock  with our little pumpkin this year and leave the door bell knocking for next year!

Trick or Treat!

Our little pumpkins first Halloween!

We had an amazing time experiencing over a decade of  Halloweens together and finally spending the first one with our very own little pumpkin!

It’s the first of many holidays to come and that makes me even more excited!

the next day Lola had the whole “trick or treat” concept down! She even learned to put things inside her bucket and take them back out!

Is it really important to know what….. ok , ok tablespoons!

Yes, lolas new favorite kitchen toy! Tonight you are 9 months old and I had the hardest time rocking you to sleep and actually putting you down knowing tomorrow will come and you will be on your way to ten months old!

In a million ways I get excited   for you to get older because like nothing I have ever experienced before each month honestly gets BETTER and BETTER!

It’s just hard knowing as much as I enjoy you today I don’t get to keep you that way…. I will say “keeping” you is finally starting to grow on me! I for the first time since you were born bought my first pack of “Jumbo” diapers (over 200 count)!

I didn’t realize that I had unconsciously refused to do this since you were born because I always thought this happiness would be temporary… I have said it a million times and as silly as it may sound, I always thought I had to give you back!

I get it now lola, I get it.

I’m your mommy and your my baby forever and always.

Your daddy on the other hand just tonight asked me just before we put her to bed “do we get to keep her forever”….. he has a long ways to go still!!

Your a lot of happiness to take in lola, it took your mama who’s a therapist and works on peoples’ “self realizations” everyday 9 months to get a hold of so we’ll give your dad a break just this once ;)

At least I will start getting diapers for cheaper since their in bulk!

Yay for Halloween and cheap diapers!