Sweet Yet Sour

Last week, a few days before Halloween, we got our first real snowstorm of the season. It snowed for three days and piled up almost 3 feet of snow in our area. Fortunately, Mike was able to work from home and take breaks to go out and use the snow blower every few hours.

While we were stuck inside Anna decided that she wanted to read books while sitting in one of the drawers of her changing table. She sat in there and read “Blue Hat, Green Hat” for quite a long time.

Anna reads in the drawer

Just to show how much snow we got, Mike stood next to the table on our deck on the second day (we got more after this).

Mike and the snow

A few weeks ago I had the forethought to buy Anna a snow bib and it came in handy this last storm.  The snow was almost as tall as she and it was really fun to stick her into it and watch her try to wriggle out…

Anna in the snow drift

The snow stopped in time for Halloween so we dressed Anna up in this year’s sheep costume and headed out. We didn’t really “Trick or Treat” as much as go to the houses of neighbors we knew would want to see Anna in her costume.  She looked really cute in it, but would never say, “Baa!” when we asked her what a sheep says, even though we practiced all day…

The Halloween Sheep

We headed up to my sister’s house and met up with Anna’s cousin Brendan, who had decided to be a ghost this year.  Originally the idea was that Brendan was going to be Casper the Friendly ghost and his costume was made by my sister out of a pillowcase.

Brendan the ghost

All in all it was a good Halloween – Anna got some new crayons and books from our friends Cassandra and Mark and we got a fair amount of candy for ourselves.  This will probably be the last year we can eat all of her candy and not have her protest, but that’s probably best for my thighs!