Trick or Treat

Technically this was not Zara's first Halloween, but at a week old last year, there wasn't a whole lot of candy action. Growing up we always made our Halloween costumes and I figured I'd keep it up with Zara. For her first Halloween I whipped up a pretty rough starfish costume, a starfish because she used to just flail out and stretch arms and legs wide after a nap pretty much exactly like one. Our entry into costume didn't go so smoothly, the hat just made her madder so we ditched it pretty quick.

But we chilled out when we went outside and starting walking around to visit the neighbors. We trick or treated Ms. Carol all by our self even (standing only, still not walking without a handhold).


And after visiting all the neighbors we settled down in a driveway with a bunch of neighbors and gave candy away to the kids en masse while we got to talk. It works pretty well because you don't have to keep getting up answering the door and kids love it because one "house" covers like 6 of them on the street speeding their candy collection along. But while sitting there Zara had obviously figured out the whole Halloween thing as she systematically emptied our candy pumpkin into her trick or treat bag. Daddy's girl.