Trick-or-Treat

We had the perfect trick-or-treating experience this year.
Madison was "Chica" from the Sunnyside up show on Sprout, which is a PBS kids channel. This chicken does nothing but squeaks with a kazoo and we seem to think she's a real celebrity! We are totally on board with chicken's if that can keep us away from princesses and bling for a while.

We went to Jason's parents house in Southlake to trick-or-treat. It's the same neighborhood that Jason grew up in and all the same people still live there. It's now full of grandparents giving away candy to the kids of the kids that grew up there. That in itself it something really amazing to me. Like your own little perfect corner of the world. Like the way the world once was, that you wish it could be again. I just love it. The neighborhood is very wide spread and the lots are large so we only hit 6 houses on Madison's little chicken legs.

She loved this. She wanted to walk with Pappa and hold his hand everywhere she went.

We started out at Mamma and Pappa's house where they of course give Madison all the candy and let her go wild. I am of course so very thankful that this baby wants nothing to do with candy ---yet. She played with it, dumped it out, picked it up, shook her pumpkin, and then repeated. We did add some goldfish so she could actually eat some of the fun on Halloween.

It didn't take long for Madison to figure this whole thing out. She worked the crowd. The more cute things she did, the more full her pumpkin became, so guess what? The more cute things she did. She went right to the doors, knocked, waited and then walked right in. Some she stood at and did her famous "cheeeese!" She said please, thanks and then blew kisses as she walked away. It was truly the perfect first time trick or treating experiences. Fun was had by all.

Okay now, come on. Seriously, is there anyone else out these that gets giant one pound chocolate candy bars for Halloween just going door to door? I didn't think so. Only in Southlake, Texas.

Welcome, Autumn

Well, fall is here and in Texas that means cooler weather but still lots of sunshine, which is the perfect combo for us. Everything is great except that dreaded day light savings time. I hate that it is dark so early. Our outside play time after school is really cut short by the darkness and I just don't care for that one bit. However, you take the good with the bad and fall is almost all good.
Madison carved her fist pumpkin this year. Everything is still an adventure and really just leaves us laughing. This was no exception.
She picked this pumpkin out of the "patch" at school. They said that when she found it she just kept hugging it and going back to it. They put her name on it and we brought it home to carve!

Yes, she still "cheeses" at everything! :-)

Jason helped her trace her hands on the back of the pumpkin because if she colors anything her signature hand print must go on it! Why? Who knows, but she is very particular about things being done the "right way" according to Madison and this was a must. The we drew the face and cut it out. She thought the inside were gross and kept saying, "Ewww.... yucky!"



Ewww... Yucky!

All was fun and silly until we put it in the bathroom and turned off the lights to make it glow. That made her cry and she was not in love with her pumpkin anymore. We quickly solved that by putting it on the front porch and all the neighborhood kids came and told her how awesome it was! She believed them. :-)

We kept it until it rotted and then some neighborhood punks had a pumpkin smashing night on our streets and this one fell victim to the crime! :-(