Emmy Lou's Adventures: Happy Halloween!

Emmeline is now nestled in her crib sleeping soundly after her first trick-or-treating adventure. It is silly, I know, to take a toddler out for trick-or-treats when we aren't even letting her eat candy yet, but we all had a blast. In fact, Paul just said: "This has been one of the best Halloweens ever!" We were like two proud peacocks watching our adorable little daughter take delight in Halloween traditions that we have always loved. I thought that she would be annoyed by her tiger costume and pull off the hood but she wore it the entire time we were outside. I also thought she would be more interested in rocks and dumping out her pumpkin than in walking door-to-door. But I think the whole event was such a novelty and out-of-the-ordinary that she had fun playing along. She loves to say "hi!" and "bye-bye!" to everyone she meets so she had a great time interacting with so many new people. She also had her friend Estella to look up to and take notes from. It was so fun to watch them together.

Our evening started with a very long ride into Newark since we got stuck in traffic for over an hour. But once we arrived at Mel's apartment, we started right in on the fun. We had all sorts of fun goodies which included pizza-wiches (always a part of my family's Halloween tradition) and Melanie had made pumpkin pie and steamed some shrimp. Emmeline and Estella put up some pumpkin window clings and also decorated pumpkins with crayons, while us big kids carved pumpkins: