It is finally starting to feel a little more like fall here in Florida with some cooler weather coming through. A couple weeks ago we went to check out a local pumpkin patch and it was so hot outside you would have thought we were in the middle of summer time. It was still fun nonetheless and we were pleasantly surprised with the normalcy of it all since we are accustomed to "Sitka standards". There was a petting zoo which Brinleigh enjoyed, a pumpkin patch where Brinleigh had a great time picking up handfuls of hay and throwing it in the air, and pony rides, which she absolutely loved!
We have several projects going on at the house right now and with still trying to get settled and me trying to get a job, I have not been the least bit motivated to get into the Halloween spirit. My decorations consisted of some window clings and a glitter sign on the front door and some pumpkins lined up on the bookcase. We didn't do any Halloween crafts or make any festive treats and we even forgot to carve our pumpkin in time. But hopefully we can start to get more into the holiday spirit around here after Thanksgiving.
Last weekend we went to our first Coast Guard event on base. They had a kids Halloween party and costume contest in the C-130 hangar. After Brinleigh's constant refusal to wear a witch hat for weeks prior, I finally changed her Halloween costume to a Bumble Bee and I was very happy with the outcome. She has got to be the cutest bumble bee EVER! Everyone who saw her thought so too. We walked around and checked stuff out, got some candy, decorated a cupcake and Brinleigh won "Cutest Costume" in the costume contest.
I bought Brinleigh's bee costume at a local Halloween store and it came with everything we needed. For some reason, even though it was a size 2T, the tights were so short that they looked like they were made for a one year old and Brinleigh refused to wear the headband with the bee antennas. I ordered some larger tights online and then I bought some yellow poms and glued them onto small black ponytail bands and put those on her pig tails. I had just bought the cutest little black dress shoes for her and they went perfectly with the costume. When we were shopping at Michaels craft store one day, I saw a little bumble bee bag that matched her costume and we used that as her treat bag. I had previously bought her a pink pumpkin bucket for her candy so we brought that just in case and she ended up carrying both of them. She had to have her "perce" (purse=bumble bee bag) and her pumpkin bucket, both with candy of course.
We decided to take Brinleigh trick-or-treating in downtown Dunedin. (The next town over from us.) We love the town and it's such a cute little are right on the ocean. They closed off the streets downtown and all the shops were handing out candy (just like Sitka does).There was a free movie in the park right in the middle of town and they played "Hotel Transylvania". Downtown ended up being a lot bigger than we thought and there were a lot more shops and stores than we were expecting. It was busy when we got there but once we started trick-or-treating it was getting packed full of people. We stayed for about an hour and a half and then decided to go get dinner and head home at a reasonable time. Brinleigh seemed to have a great time walking around and seeing all the other kids in costumes, but I think it was also a little overwhelming with how busy it was and all the older kids and tall people running around everywhere. We received numerous compliments from everyone we passed about how adorable Brinleigh was and people gushed over her cuteness.
Brinleigh's vocabulary is quickly expanding and she is starting to understand and comprehend things a lot more. Her most recent discovery is that ghosts say "BOO" and it's scary. This is the cutest thing ever!
Brinleigh's vocabulary is quickly expanding and she is starting to understand and comprehend things a lot more. Her most recent discovery is that ghosts say "BOO" and it's scary. This is the cutest thing ever!
