What an adventure Halloween was this year. If you were to read Katerina's blog you would think it was all "treat" but believe me there was some "trick" as well, which makes for a more memorable experience!
At the school parade and party on Friday, Katerina was very shy--and if you know my daughter that is not typical for her. She spent the parade looking down at her feet as if by doing so no one would see her. Then it took her a good 10 minutes to warm up at the party in her classroom. I think she is just the kind of kid that is cautious in new situations and it is not until the experience is familiar that she becomes herself. After she was more comfortable, however, she wouldn't stop talking and eating the yummy treats they made (fingers, eye balls, and witches brooms).
Then the official Halloween day arrived! I picked her up from school and asked if she was excited to go trick or treating. She said she was. I told her that we were going to have an early dinner before going out. We got home, I took her out of the van, got Victoria out and then when it was time to go inside she gave me a hard time...wanting to go back into the van. I wouldn't let her. She spent a good 5 minutes on the kitchen floor crying. Then I made dinner, and by this time Mike was home. Katerina wanted no part of dinner, crying or sobbing about one thing or another. Her dinner ended up consisting of about 4 bites of peas and a half of string cheese. Oh well...
She got dressed in her costume without tears and was so adorable. She enjoyed trick or treating after she got the hang of it ...usually never saying a word just holding out her bowl and then saying "I want to go to another house." It was pretty cute.
When she got home, she delved right into the candy (apparently having already snacked on some along the way). We let her...she had a Reeses peanut butter cup, another candy bar, a tootsie roll, and a lolly-pop. She tried the sour patch kids but said they were "spicy." After all of that, Mike and I figured she had had enough candy, so he had her pick her "last" piece and then took the candy away. Well the tears came rolling down. I just had to laugh. She eventually calmed down because I let her look in the her candy bowl to see that her candy was still there and I gave in to letting her have a bag of halloween pretzels (what a great idea--just regular pretzels shaped like bats).
Victoria also was a bit fussy in the evening before bed, not wanting to be put down. But both girls ended up sleeping soundly (in fact Victoria went to bed at 8:30pm, woke up at 2:30am for a half hour, and slept again until 6:20am--that a girl!).
It was certainly a Halloween to remember!
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