I started telling Emma early in the morning, "You've got to say 'Trick-or-Treat' so you can get candy tonight". I think in all of that she heard "candy". Either way, the excitement started growing more and more as the evening came around. Being the procrastinator that I am, I hadn't really thought of what Emma would be this year. We had one costume that Bela had brought her from Mexico, but I just didn't know if I was thrilled by it. Then we tried putting together a Doc McStuffins costume because she is ALL about Doc McStuffins. I even spent the night before cutting up a boys button up shirt and sewing it all over the place to make a doctors coat. My mistake? I forgot that the bottom of the shirt is rounded and not straight. So it just didn't look right. And I tried on the other costumes, Dora, but she wasn't thrilled about wearing the big Dora hair. Ultimately it came down to an "I don't care you're wearing the hair" attitude. No matter what, we were going out and trick-or-treating.
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| Light bulb coming on of "Oh, if I say trick-or-treat I get CANDY!!!" |
We kept saying, "Emma, you have to wear your hair so they'll give you candy". Nice, right? Well, we went to the first house and knocked. She freaked and demanded that Daddy pick her up. But as soon as she saw that they put candy in her bag, that was it, she was ready to go! She took off running, I kid you not! She was screaming the entire time, "I DID IT, I GOT IT, I DID IT!" It was so frikin cute. She had us running a good hour straight from one house to the next. I don't know how many times I had to say "Stay on the sidewalk!" She didn't care, she just knew she had to get to the house next door!
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| Action shot of her running to the next house |
She never ceases to amaze me with how smart she is. She talks here and there. To be honest, her vocabulary has grown SO MUCH in just the last month it's incredible. But to see her pick up on the concept of trick-or-treat+thank you=candy plus including the thought that we put in of "you've got to wear your hair". There was once or twice when she felt it fall off and she herself picked it up for us to put on her. She knew it was necessary.
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| Telling Daddy to hurry up and knock |
My kid is just so smart and cute! I know a mommy it's my job to say that. But her intelligence is just incredible for her age.
