Maddy's Halloween

Last year for Halloween, Maddy was a fat fairy. She was absolutely precious crawling around with wings on her back in the beautiful costume that Auntie Di made for her. So when we were thinking of costumes again this year, we discussed doing a fairy again, but over time the idea became making her into a little fat bat. We discussed a lot of different bat ideas and, Ash and I, being the geeks that we are kept coming back to Super Mario because we both seemed to remember a little pink bat. Well, after some internet searching, we found what we were looking for.

This is Sir Swoop from Super Paper Mario.



And this is Maddy Swoop from our house.



So what did Maddy think about Halloween? Well, she was delighted with the idea if she allowed me to dress her in a purple costume, she could carry around her bucket and people would put candy in it. She was even more excited that she got to do all of this outside which is her favorite place in the world to be.

So, the moment we opened the door to go trick-or-treating, Maddy ran out the door straight to the neighbor's house, by passed the neighbor holding a bowl of candy and calling to her and instead went straight for the wind chimes in the neighbor's backyard.

Here she is pointing at the neighbor's wind chimes so we will ring them for her.



We finally coaxed her back to the front of the house and she got her candy, which was pretty exciting. So exciting, in fact, she immediately put the candy in her mouth, still in the wrapper. We got her to put it in her bucket though and convinced her to keep walking down the street.

Well, babies love to walk. And, the best part about walking is you get to pick up leaves, which is her favorite hobby.



So, trick-or-treating tonight, was really just a nice walk for everyone, occassionally stopping at people's houses if the house looked interesting or if there were enough big kids there to make her want to go too.



It was mostly about the walking though...



And walking...



And walking...



She didn't come home with much candy, but she came home exhausted and happy, which means Halloween was a success! Now to start working on the costume for next year.