halloween weekend

Adelyn is at that age where getting a decent picture of her is proving quite difficult. She won't hold still and she won't do her cute thing long enough to get the picture!  Thankfully, she was in a "cooperative mood" to get a few snapshots of her cheerleading ;)  Nick was behind me...her favorite game is "follow the leader" with arm/hand motions...he would do something with his arms/hands and she was mimicking him....she randomly breaks out into this game quite often. She'll walk up to me and yell "mom!" while folding her arms or spreading them wide and expecting me to copy her following sequence of arms motions...

The "fairy princess" costume was a last minute throw together for trick or treating at Nick's office on Friday that he told me 2 hours before it started and we were at my mom's....so I raided the dress up bin and found this flower girl dress in a kids size 8...not gonna lie, I'm pretty handy with safety pins :) She wouldn't let me pin the wings on her...and the wand was sort of a weapon (she's waving it in the picture)...but it was fun nontheless...

Before trick or treating on Saturday (Beggar's Night in IA..Nick thinks that it's the wierdest thing ever that we don't trick or treat on Halloween...maybe it is...I don't know...we didn't trick or treat growing up), we stopped at my stepdad's office so Addy could go on a dirt bike ride....

She LOVED it...you could hear her giggling the whole time.

She also got to play in a crane, 2 other machines that I don't know the names of ;) and help Papa Rob drive the bobcat. She LOVED that too....it was rather hard to get her to come out of a machine once she was in one...I think it was all the buttons. :)  She kept pushing Rob away and sliding the "doors" shut when he would open them to take her out....hmm....

Trick or treating went as well as you could expect with a toddler :)

She wanted to eat each piece of candy as she got it. We made it to 2 houses before we went back to Grandma and Papa's to hand out candy....I'm not going to disclose how much of it she ate rather than handed out :)