Halloween

Age two is supposed to be terrible, right? Lucky for us, we haven't had too many terrible moments. There is, of course, the ever-present problem of sleep deprivation. Why, oh, why can't my two year old sleep through the night? I hope it's the molars. One in, three to go. If she's not sleeping after that, I don't know what we'll do. It's hard to be upset with her in the morning when you wake up to this kid:

Halloween festivities this year included painting a pumpkin to look like Bert. Rya loves Sesame Street and her Monster Mash book. In the book, Ernie paints his pumpkin to look like Bert. When we went to the pumpkin patch, we found a pumpkin with an elongated shape that was perfect for Bert's head. Plus, knives are dangerous for tiny kids so paint seemed like a much better option. Jason drew the outline and we (very reluctantly on my part) let Rya do the painting. Being incredibly Type A, I had a difficult time letting go of the picture in my head. Painting outside the lines wasn't in my plan. After Rya finished painting, Jason cleaned Bert up a bit.

We trick-or-treated with our normal crowd in East Sac before returning to our own neighborhood. Rya only lasted about 10 houses before she told us it was time to go. Not much was happening in our neighborhood. There aren't too many young kids around and our street is dark. Rya went to our next door neighbor's house, but we stopped after that. We weren't home the whole night, but in the time we were home we only had 7 kids trick-or-treat. The rest of the candy went to school so we wouldn't eat it.

Below is Rya and Maya in their matching poodle skirts. I don't sew much, so I was pretty proud of these skirts. I made the skirts and the poodles with a bit of help from my mom. It cost about $10 to make both of these and the cheapest skirt I found online was $20.

Before we went trick-or-treating we stopped by Grandpa and Kathy's house. Rya was not happy after her nap and even more perturbed about me putting on her outfit. I literally had to hold her down while she kicked and screamed. She was hysterical in the car and very upset the first few minutes we were at their house. What better to make an upset kid calm down than a dog? Becky came out to play with Rya. As I mentioned in previous posts, Rya thinks animals want to chase her and play with her. She spent a good deal of time getting close to Becky and then running away thinking Becky would chase her.