We had a lot of fun in October! It feels like the year is just getting busier and busier as it goes on and we know it will just continue to do so in the upcoming weeks and months.
We started the month off with a trip to the pumpkin patch. Emily loved seeing all the pumpkins! She wanted to hug them and she especially liked the little baby pumpkins because they weren't too heavy. We got little face stickers to decorate her little pumpkin. She wanted to put a different face on every side of the pumpkin and then she put them all over herself.
Early in October, we went with some friends to the zoo for their "zoo boo." Basically all that means is that they got to pick out a little pumpkin and decorate it, but that was enough for Emily. They had some other stuff for older kids, but we were content with the pumpkin :) And Emily loves the zoo no matter what!
We had an awesome halloween dinner with my family and then later on in the month, Grant, Emily, and I had dinner in a pumpkin. We also decorated halloween sugar cookies for family and friends. Emily wanted to have every color on her cookie :)
We went to our ward trunk or treat the day before halloween. Emily was little red riding hood, I was the granny, and Grant was the big bad wolf. Emily didn't really enjoy the dinner part of it because there were a lot of people and some of the costumes scared her, but she loved the trunk or treating. Grant took her around to a couple cars, but Emily's favorite part was passing out all of the candy to the kids.
On Halloween morning, we had pumpkin shaped pancakes. That night, we took Emily trick-or-treating. Our plan was to just go to a couple houses, but she was having so much fun that we kept going until she decided she was done. I was so proud of how brave she was. She went straight up to the people and said trick-or-treat while holding out her basket. She thought it was so cool to get candy from everyone. After about half an hour she said "home" and asked Grant to carry her. She was pooped! It was a very successful experience, though, and I'm glad she had so much fun :)
