And I Give You...The Ah Puh Tuss!

Yep, she picked it. If you haven't heard already at The Most Significant Thing, the little one picked her costume and it garnered her winner of the costume contest! Here is our little "ah-puh-tuss" receiving her award certificate from the nice girls at WeeStart

I'm still whirling from the fantastic Halloween festivities. It was a good one to be sure: the pumpkins were carved with skill, cute kids running around in equally cute costumes, fun friends, lots of sweets, and more rings on the doorbell than you get all year. I consider yesterday the primer for the "biggy" holidays that will soon be upon us and judging by the enthusiasm of the munchkin, it's going to be an exhausting, but beautiful Thanksgiving and Christmas.

I struggle to express how enjoyable it was to watch her figure out the whole trick or treat thing. I can imagine what she was thinking. I'm dressed in this funny costume, it's dark outside and we are going to knock on the neighbor's doors? From the moment the first familiar face opened the door and handed her a piece of candy, which she promptly placed in her bucket, she was hooked. It didn't take much coaxing to get her to the next house and although she had never had candy before, she knew it was something special. As her bucket got heavy, I thought I would help her carry it, no way. I was met with resistance as she tightened her death grip on the handle opting for me to carry her, bucket firmly held.

In an effort to be festive, the family dressed in theme, for the second year in a row. Bouncing of the marine motif from the octopus, we appropriately dressed as pirates. It seemed fitting since the pirate ship is already docked in the driveway of the house.

The little one seem thoroughly unimpressed by our pirate costumes. You win one contest and you become a costume snob.

So we cruise into November with only pictures to remind us of the good time and a little voice who from time to time exclaims, "Ah puh tuss" and "bucket" as she ingrains the memory a little bit deeper in her active little brain.