Halloween

I still need to gather up all the photos from all the fun we had while my mom was here, but in the meantime, enjoy some Halloween cuteness.  Lucy was a kitty, just like last year.  That's what she wanted to be and the costume from last year still fit so we went with it.  Charlie had a hand-me-down lion costume that fit perfectly so all in all, we had an easy time of the costumes this year!  

Here's the friendly lion.

Here's the kitty, who didn't really want to put the costume on until we mentioned that there would be kids.

The kitty wanted to give the lion some hugs before we left.

We had a great time of it.  Grandma, Lucy, Charlie and I hit the streets.  Charlie sacked out on Grandma's shoulder pretty quickly.  Lucy only said "trick or treat a couple of times," but did manage to say "thank you" a decent amount.  People kept bringing the bowl of candy down to her level and after the initial shyness wore off she often took two pieces, or three, or five whether the people had invited her to or not.  We made it around a large block and then it was getting a bit chilly.  The last house we went to had an angel statue at the front door.  Lucy tends to get very affectionate when she is having a good time, and all of her affection was lavished on this little angel statue-- it was petted, hugged and even kissed.  We went back to our house, came in the door and Lucy proclaimed, "We got big tasty food!!"  So, I guess in her mind, trick-or-treating was just like really awesome grocery shopping.  I told her she could choose two pieces of candy to eat that night and wouldn't you know it, the smarty-pants chose the two biggest pieces which were bags of M&Ms.  

The little lion stayed sleeping even after we came inside.  

The kitty enjoying her spoils.