Earlier this week I started prepping Lexi for the scary sights that come along every year on October 31. It started at my grandma’s house with a witches hat and finished at the mall talking to the scary lady who cleans up the food court. She gave me the heebie jeebies but Lexi still hasn’t developed that fight or flight reflex.

On Friday we went with grandma to mommy’s classroom to help her and her classroom carve pumpkins. Lexi really enjoyed the attention from all the kids and they were all very impressed with her. I also enjoyed hanging out with the kids and did a bang up job on their pumpkin. After it was carved we took all kinds of pictures and the kids all wanted to pick it up because it was massive. At one point it kinda fell and we lost a tooth but decided it added character. It was nice to see mommy at work and we were just in time to have a nice lunch at Subway. Uncle Paul would be proud.

Today is Halloween and we spent the day at Superstore. What? Lexi was wearing her skeleton PJ’s from Uncle Tim and everyone told us how cute she was. Like we don’t know. We popped in at Al and Larissa’s new house and even though they weren’t there Larissa’s mom offered to watch Lexi while we went shopping but we told her we would miss her too much.

It was already late when we got home and the trick or treaters started coming before dinner was ready. We put on the “Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” to set the mood and kept running to the door with Lexi to see all the costumes. i think the preparations we took paid off because she was all smiles at the door. Shan had some tears but the good kind.

In between kids coming to the door Lexi was starting to catch on that more were coming and kept pointing to the door. When the kids would come she would get all excited and start talking when door opened. At one point I decided to sneak out the garage without her seeing and came to the door and yelled “Halloween Apples”. Shan came with Lexi to the door and when she saw it was Vegas and I she gave me this surprised look. I guess you had to be there…

Once the older kids started coming around (without costumes) we turned the house lights out and made sure we had a little inventory left to snack on. Lexi is in bed dreaming of princesses, farm animals, transformers, and dad coming to the door. We on the other hand are watching the “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant” marathon. I have no idea how this is possible but apparently there are enough cases to warrant a friggin MARATHON. I am so tempted to air the male sequel I call “How I Knew My Wife Was Pregnant!”, but that’s another post!