Happy Halloween!

What else would Evelyn be for her first Halloween than a little ducky?

We took the baby trick-or-treating tonight! I know! Utterly ridiculous! But she had the costume, and so we took her to meet the governor. The governor sucks but he sure knows how to throw a Halloween shindig for the kiddies. You get to traipse across the porch of the governor's mansion and then walk along a little strip full of tents of people giving out candy. Why else would one live in a capitol city if they don't get to go hang with the famous political peeps now and then? (I am so not down with the cool lingo, am I? As evidenced by the fact that I just said "down with". Oh well. Evelyn has plenty of time to be embarrassed by me later, for right now, she is too little to know that I am a giant dork.) Anyway, she (or should I say M and I?) now has a bag full of loot. Trick or treating is fun! I haven't gone in fifteen or twenty years or something like that! Having kids is great. :) Actually, taking a five-month-old trick-or-treating is exactly the sort of stuff that M and I are typically too lazy to do, so I'm very proud of us for making the effort. Having said that, I bought her costume at least two weeks ago. Why, then, did I spend my afternoon scrounging up the REST of her costume? The tights and clothes to wear underneath it, and a little ducky bag for candy that I whipped up at the last minute. It's not like I didn't know it was coming up, but today was the first time I really thought about the fact that she needed the rest of it put together.

Everyone loved the baby, too, so that made it even more fun for us. It was really funny because people were saying, "Oh, look at little Ducky!" And we would look at them to see who it was because... how did they know that her name was Ducky??! Then we would realize that maybe it was the gigantic duck suit that she was wearing and NOT their psychic powers that were tipping them off. We are smart.

Then on the way back to the car, she ate her first sticker. Umm.. that wasn't quite so good. :) The first lady put it on her costume when she went through the line, and then I caught her eating at it later. I pulled most of it away from her at once, and found the missing chunk. Part of her hand was covered in sticker glue that I had to use a wipe on to remove in the car. Her first sticker removal! I know it won't be the last time! :) Except for the sticker incident (and really, the fault lies with us there--do you think she has never tried to eat her clothes before? Looks like we would have seen that one coming!) she was very well-behaved. Yay baby! I wanted to take her to a pumpkin farm for the photo ops but never made it, so at least we got to do the trick-or-treat thing... if on a very small scale. That's the only place we went. We would have walked back to the neighbor's house but they didn't have their light on. Neither did we (before we left). It's a total waste of time out here.

p.s. The governor has election commercials that make me laugh. He talks about how over the last four years, he tried to always do the best thing for Kentucky. "Did I always succeed? Of course not." Which, yes, everyone makes mistakes (though NOT everyone makes mistakes that people refer to as "felonies") but this commercial? It was supposed to convince me that you are GOOD and I should vote for you! It should not remind me of the many, many bad things, you know?