Halloween 2016

June was not nearly as excited to celebrate Halloween this year as we were.  My first indication that she probably wasn't going to be into it was a few weeks ago when I tried to put her in an awesome cow costume that my mom made for my brother to wear 20+ years ago.  As soon as she saw it she started crying.  We left the costume on a chair in the living room, thinking she might warm up to it. Not so much.  I did get it on her one Saturday morning for a few minutes but she spent most of the time whining and trying to pull the hood off.

After that I started looking for DIY costume ideas on Pinterest. I came across an adorable chicken costume, made by gluing feathers to a long-sleeve white onesie. Perfect!  Or so I thought. As soon as the feathered onesie was complete and June saw it she was afraid of it.  We tried to put it on her but she screamed and writhed. Not wanting to scar her for life I also gave up on the chicken idea.

We ended up going for a walk around the neighborhood last night.  June wore an owl hat that I made during my days of selling hats at the Iowa City Farmer's Market. She looked damn adorable, and actually left the hat on!  She mostly enjoyed the walk.  I say mostly because there were two things that scared her.  A full-size grim reaper with glowing red eyes on someone's porch, and an inflatable dinosaur.  She got some extra cuddles with dad as we passed the scary stuff.  After about 15 minutes we decided to call it a night and headed back home.

Upon arriving at home we discovered that the neighborhood kids did not respect the "please take one" sign posted on the bowl full of candy and took all of it.  By 6:00 PM we were out of candy.  Oh, well. We went inside and made sure our porch light was turned off.

June was hungry so into her high chair she went.  Unfortunately, some kids must not know that no porch light means don't come to our house.  A kid wearing a gorilla costume rang the bell and June could see his fuzzy black head through the front door.  She screamed in terror and tried to climb out of her high chair.  After that Justin posted a sign on our door telling people not to knock or ring the bell.

We ended the night on a high note, though.  I had purchased a couple of light up toys for Halloween so we went out to our new back porch and let June run around with the toys.  Justin also kept her entertained by running around the back yard, waving a glow stick and the other flashing toy.  I was glad she was able to laugh and be happy after her evening of Halloween trauma.

Mad at Mama for having Daddy pick her up for a picture.  "Dowwwnn!" she kept yelling. 

Daddy protecting June from the scary dinosaur.

Happy Camper playing with the mailboxes