Halloween

It was the girls' first Halloween together and Emma was so excited to go trick or treating!  She was dressed as Cinderella and Hannah was a giraffe.  They both looked so cute!  Unfortunately we didn't get a picture of them together but nonetheless we did get cute pictures of them both.

The weather was crummy but that didn't hold us back from going to 24th Street and trick or treating.  Emma loved going up to people and asking for candy.  She was very polite and said thank you to everyone who gave her candy.  She loved seeing all the people dressed up - in particular there was a man dressed as a Gorilla and Emma loved him.  It comes as no surprise since he looked just like a life-size version of Tulane monkey.

After 30 minutes of being out it started to really rain.  Hannah, who slept the whole time, and I ran back home to get out of the rain.  We were quite wet by the time we got home.  We then jumped in the car to pick up Emma and Jamey.  When we got home Jack and Beckham (the boys next door) were getting ready to go out to get candy and Emma really wanted to go.  The rain let up a bit so Jamey took her out for some more trick or treating.

Emma got a ton of candy and loves looking at it. She knows that she can't eat it all and can have one piece a day.  I sorted through the candy and took all the hard candy out but we are slowly going to have the candy mysteriously disappear.  Hopefully she won't notice but knowing her she will.  There was one piece I took away and last night when she was looking through the candy she asked where that particular piece went.  I don't know how she remembers all the different candy especially when she has more than 30 pieces!!!

On a side note, we are dealing with some sleep issues again with Emma.  While she is going to sleep at night without us having to stay in her room she is waking up between 5 and 5:30 every day! It is starting to kill us especially since Hannah wakes up around 4:30/4:45.  We are ignoring her when she wakes up and not going in until 6 but she fake cries for us and says everything under the sun to try to get us to come in.  She tells us her bunny is awake - she has a bunny clock that has a bunny walking on the top half that signifies it is time to get up and the bottom half is a bunny sleeping.  Clearly at 5am the bunny is not awake!  She also tells us she has to go pee-pee; poo-poo; her tummy hurts, etc. The doctor recommended we ignore her and we've been doing that for the last few days.  The bigger issue is she gets up and turns her light on.  I am trying to find something to cover her light switch so she can't turn it on anymore.  I think that can help her go back to sleep.  We will see.