Trick O Treat

October 31, 2005:

flower power

This will be Kaelin's first Halloween. Courtesy of her Ninong Jeff and Tita Annie, she will be dressed up as a flower . A flower that will bloom over time and sown with love...how appropriate. We mananged to avoid eating all of the chocolate before it was time to hand it out to the kids. Although we only expected a handful of kids coming to our door...you can never have enough candy especially for us chocolate mongers.

At 6:30pm it was time to dress Kaelin into her first costume. Quite a feat if you ask me...had to lay her down, turn her over, put her on her stomach...Kaelin looked unimpressed. The outfit needed parental instructions! Of course, come picture time, she could not even muster a smile. We propped her up against the couch for pictures and due to the weight of the costume and her lack of upper body control, she almost toppled over. A cute first Halloween picture was not meant to be! For a chance to parade her in her darling costume and in a last ditch effort to get our greedy hands on some extra treats, Jeff and Annie took her "trick or treating" to a few houses. But after a slew of comments like "Isn't she adorable" to "Isn't she too young to eat candy yet?", they came back home. After an hour, she started to look perplexed and agitated in her costume ...the costume was afterall a furnace in disguise. Good for outdoors but not for indoor use. Poor Kaelin...what parents do to torture their kids! But we will do it all over again for next year...