This was really Violet's first proper Halloween, even though its the third one she has been around for. We were out of town on the last two halloween's and V was just to young to care - not this year! Wow she had a lot of fun! She wanted to be an orange cat but decided last minute that she actually wanted to be a butterfly - that worked for us as finding an orange cat costume was not really panning out and there was NO WAY possible that one of us was going to try and make one :) We ended up with a Thumbelina costume as that was the one that was closest to her majesty's wishes. She has no idea who Thumbelina is but when she saw it she was thrilled and decided she was a butterfly princess which is why she added her tiara to the emsemble.
We visited the pumpkin patch with our friends Mike and Diana and their baby girl Annicka. We brought home four pumpkins and of course Jon had fun trying to come up with something that would wow the kids trick or treating (those who complimented the pumpkins got a lot of candy I noticed :).
Violet went trick or treating with her buddy Jeremy from across the street and she figured out how great trick or treating was pretty quickly! We went to about 10 houses on our street then handed out candy for a while - Violet the princess butterfly tried to scare the kids by saying boo at the door - she got a lot of laughs instead... Just after 8 we headed to the neighbouthood bonfire - it was great but we didn't stay too long as Ms. V was over tired and having a sugar crash so we packed her up in the stroller and let her fall asleep as her parents enjoyed a Halloween stroll on as it was a beautiful evening .
Here are more pics and videos from this month - be sure to check out Violet's solo rendition of itsy bitsy spider on ukulele (thank you Mike :) and the tap dancing (thank you Nanny :).
You may also notice some pics of Jon and Christine and other random shots from Violet's world - she loves taking pictures these days - her is one of her best shots - yes Mom Violet takes better photos than you :) - sorry had to do it!
Grandma and Grandpa are coming here next week for a visit - Violet is very excited. We are looking forward to the visit and madly trying to get the house in order with the reno still ongoing - as long as we can move our bed out of the living room we will be quite happy :) We are actually almost there and things are looking great!Love to all!
