Halloween

Olivia had been talking about her Halloween costume since last year. Her costume plans were ever changing. They ranged from a scuba diver to Tinker Bell, but when it was time to make a final decision, she told me she wanted to be a bride. It turns out it is very hard to find a bride costume for a 3 year old, so luckily grandmother was so nice to make her complete ensemble.

We went outside to take some pictures, but it was so bright I couldn't get a single picture of our bride looking at the camera.

We went to our ward Halloween party. Olivia was our bride, I was a wedding cake and Olivia wanted Matt to be the groom. He thought that may be a little weird so he claims he went as the father of the bride instead, but I'm not sure there was much distinction between the two.
Halloween night was a bit chilly, but Olivia enjoyed participating in the Halloween parade and trick-or treating at all the different shops in the neighborhood with her friend.

Olivia collected a lot of candy. When she woke up the next morning she headed straight to her candy bag and spent the next three hours examining the candy and eventually mashing it all up into candy soup...she didn't eat a single piece.

October Fun

Olivia loves Halloween! I think it might be her favorite holiday, so we tried to have a fun October full of Halloween activities.
Olivia and I spent the whole month making Halloween decorations, ghosts, bats, spider webs, we ended up with a pretty spooky apartment. She waited until grandfather's visit to make her favorite decoration with him: the scarecrow.

Olivia was so excited to go to her friend's Halloween party. She wasn't quite sure why she was wrapping toilet paper around some of her friends' nannies, but she really enjoyed the party.

On the way home from the party she walked while looking behind her. When we were almost home she asked, "do you what to know why I keep looking behind me?" I asked her why. She explained that she had to make sure no candy fell out of her treat bag on the walk home. There was no doubt all of the candy made it home safely.

We had big plans to rent a car and drive upstate to go to an apple orchard and pumpkin farm to do some picking. Those plans were becoming more and more complicated so we decided we would go to a pumpkin farm the NYC way, which was going to the big greenmarket at Union Square. It definitely didn't have the country feel like we were originally hoping, but we were able to successfully get some pumpkins.

Baby excitement

Olivia has been so excited for the arrival of her little sister.

She is always telling us her big plans of playing, teaching and sharing with the baby and often has "great ideas" of how she can help take care of the baby... for example today she told us if her sister woke up in the night she would come and rock her so that mom and dad could sleep.

This morning when Matt and Olivia were leaving for church Matt told me to take it easy while they were gone since today would not be a good day to have the baby. The NYC Marathon is today and as a result we are pretty much trapped on our street. They have shut down the bridge into the city as well as the streets in our neighborhood. A couple minutes later Olivia ran up to me and said mom I want you to exercise and run all around so you can have the baby right now and when I get back from church I can see her.

I'm hoping Olivia's wish does not come true, but I know that she sure is anxious to meet her little sister.