Halloween time

On Sunday, we went to a Halloween party at Chris' coworker's house. It was lots of fun with everyone dressing up in costume. Sophie was dressed up as Belle from Beauty & the Beast while Stephanie was a witch. They had some great snacks (cookies shaped like severed fingers/"blood" punch etc..) and Stephanie got to be a costume judge (Sophie won the cutest costume). One of Chris' coworkers was dressed up in a really scary costume - the Grim Reaper complete with Scythe and severed head lantern that he carried around. He's also quite an imposing fellow (well over 6ft). Sophie was terrified of him and would crawl away as fast as she could - yet she kept looking for him. We didn't think too much of it but that night, she woke up with what we presume were nightmares - poor girl.

Anyway, Tuesday was Halloween, Sophie's first, and she loved it (we had some worries given her fear at the party). Luckily she had such good big sister to show her the ropes!

We went to friend of Stephanie's a few minutes drive from our house and "worked" their neighbourhood.Despite the somewhat mild weather (at least compared to the weekend before) there were surprisingly few kids out. That's OK since the kids got double the candy at each house.I don't know if Sophie knew what to make of everything, but she was very excited and wanted to walk up to each and every door (we held her hands while she walked - she can't quite make it on her own yet).Anyway, after about an hour and a half, we headed home to count the loot. Stephanie had so much candy and chips !!! We gave Sophie her first taste of chocolate (an Aero bar) which she loved and then cut up a cheezie into small pieces - not as big a hit as the chocolate.

CCSS.