Happy Halloween!

Well, Erica could have been Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde for Halloween. She was happy, she was MAD, she was sleepy. Wait, maybe she was all 7 of the dwarves for Halloween. She was grumpy, she was sneezy, she was sleepy, she was cranky.... Anywhoo.... here is a pictoral play by play of Erica's first Halloween.

Erica starting the day as a happy baby in her Halloween PJs.

In her "Mummy Loves Me" bodysuit that she wore under her bee costume in the morning.

Our first stop of the day was daycare, where they were having a parade of all the kids in their costumes. Erica was a little bee, complete with wings and a stinger.

After all the crazy parents took individual pictures of their kids, we took about 80 million group shots of the kids in their costumes. Erica held up for the first 32 million or so, and then started crying.

The kids (including unhappy Erica) were loaded into rolling cribs for the Halloween parade, and rolled all over the building. Here Erica is asking the gypsy how to escape from infant Halloween jail.

Oh, the end. Erica has had ENOUGH of Halloween parades, bee costumes, and she hates Skittles!

After the parade, I took Erica home, and changed her into her in her backup costume Grandma Dyanna got her: a tiger. I was too scarred by the breakdown at daycare to shove her back into the bee costume again so soon. Erica napped in the car on the way to some trick or treating at Daddy's office. It was her first time visiting there, and she was a big hit. She laughed and smiled, and was just a joy in general. Phew!

The day ended with some actual trick or treating in our neighborhood. We tried the bee costume again, without a long sleeve shirt underneath. It was 70 degrees when we went, so there was no danger of her freezing. (It will probably be her last nice Halloween until she's 12. The weather is never this nice in Colorado for Halloween.) Erica was a trooper and didn't have a breakdown, but she did fall asleep as her daddy carried her home, and he was stuck snuggling a little bee for an early evening nap.

The End. Happy Halloween!