Halloween Fun and First Real Words!!

Mark and Erin's Night Out

Addie Ready to Trick or Treat

Our Little Ladybug

Posing with her Jack-O-Lantern

The Half-Marathoner...or St. Pauli Girls?

The Inmates

Prison Break!

We had a great week and really enjoyed our Halloween weekend! Addie came home from daycare on her 9-month birthday and showed off her first words! She can wave and say bye-bye, or more like, "Ba, Ba". Now, she doesn't realize it means someone is leaving, but she does the wave and words together. I'm going to count it!

I always thought babies' "firsts" would be easy to identify. I was completely wrong! I swear Addie has been saying, "hi" in response to our greeting since she was a couple months old. Clearly I haven't counted this as her first word. I also think she has imitated other words, but I've never been sure. It's not as easy as I thought!

Halloween was fun! We started it around here on Friday. I first dressed Addie and Molly up like prison inmates and had some fun with them. We had Molly's kennel out, and Adelyn thought it was hilarious to climb in it and play with the doors of it. Molly wasn't as fond of the idea of being in her kennel, but I had her go in for a few minutes so I could get some pictures.

Saturday morning I ran the Monster Dash Half Marathon in full costume. It was too cold for Mark and Addie to watch, so they didn't make it. When I got home, though, we went out for a celebratory lunch at Ike's in downtown Minneapolis! The brought us a complimentary sticky bun the size of our heads!

That evening, we all put on our costumes and greeted trick-or-treaters at the door. They were slow to start and we didn't get as many as we had hoped, but it was fun! Adelyn also trick-or-treated for the first time by hitting out neighbors' house! The Mehlbrech's gave Addie her first M&M's...which we obviously aren't going to feed her! :) We then brought Adelyn trick-or-treating to Grandma and Granddad Lee's house. They watched her while we went out for our own "trick-or-treating"!