Halloween Fun

We had our church Trunk or Treat and Chili Potluck on Friday night. I remade my bun-in-the-oven costume that I did two years ago when I was pregnant with Naomi, and Jacob reused his chef costume (although we somehow lost the white apron and had to make do with a red one instead). I wanted Naomi's costume to go along with ours, but it was tough to find something that would work! I finally decided to make her into a loaf of Wonderbread. I made her costume and my costume, and they both took a lot more work and time than I had anticipated, but they turned out pretty well! I think my oven looked better two years ago, but I had more energy & patience when I made it the last time.

I didn't get any pictures of the 3 of us on my camera, so I had to scan the one they took of us at church--sorry the quality is so bad!


I made Naomi's costume with an extra white pillowcase that we had and some Sharpie markers. I used red ribbon to tie the top of the "bread bag" like a twisty-tie. And then I found an image of the Nutrition Facts on the Wonderbread website and used an iron-on transfer to put it on the back of her costume.





We decorated Halloween sugar cookies tonight, but they tasted pretty terrible (it was some pre-made kit thing that I bought at Walmart), so we gave them to Naomi to play with. She mostly just licked off the icing. Decorating them made me want to eat some good sugar cookies though, so tomorrow I will have to make a trip to the grocery store to get some edible ones!



Sadly, we didn't get to go to a pumpkin patch this year because I couldn't find any around here that didn't charge admission. I really just wanted to get some cute pictures of Naomi in a pumpkin patch and have our family pick out a good pumpkin, but I refused to pay 15 dollars admission and then pay for a pumpkin on top of that... so we never got a pumpkin. We were going to just get one at the grocery store last weekend so that we could make a jack-o-lantern, but Naomi & I both got sick and we just ran out of time! Oh well... we will try again next year!

Look how little & cute she was just a year ago... I can't believe she is already 19 months old! She is growing too fast!
Happy Halloween!!

Stubborn

Naomi has always been a strong-willed child, even back in the first 6-8 weeks of her life when she screamed constantly if we weren't holding her. Jacob said something a few days ago about how he thought Naomi would be one of those kids who would stick her hand in a candy jar, grab a fistful of candy, and never be able to take out her hand because she's far too stubborn to let go of the candy. It made me laugh because it's so true.

In fact, she recently did something similar. I was eating lucky charms the other morning for breakfast, and Naomi saw the box and wanted some. She had never had them before, but it's a sugary cereal, so of course she loved them. I had turned away for a few minutes to do something on the computer when I heard her start whining. So I turned around to see her sitting there with her fist stuck in her mouth. She had grabbed such a large handful of cereal that she couldn't open her fist to leave the cereal in her mouth, but she was too stubborn to take it out. So she just sat there, whining and trying to chew on the cereal while her fist was still in her mouth. I rushed over to help her, and she got quite angry with me when I yanked her hand out and made her dump her handful of slobbery cereal back into her bowl. It was so funny--I wish I had thought to grab the camera and take a quick picture before rushing to help her!