Baby's First Halloween

The first year of a baby's life is filled with so many "micro" milestones. Every time I turn around, I feel like little miss Morley is doing something new. From baby's first smile and laugh to baby's first taste of food, and even baby's first holidays, celebrating each and every milestone is exciting and something we've grown to love. This past week, we celebrated baby's first Halloween.

First and foremost, it wouldn't be Halloween without some pumpkin carving! With the help of my sister who was home visiting, we carved the pumpkins that we had picked at the local patch earlier in the month. Morley of course was more interested in rolling around in the guts and then eating them than the actual carving part.

On a side note, can we talk about about my chihuahua Titus for a second? Look at him in this picture, just lurking in background like a little creep.

Ok, now back to the cuteness overload...

And now the photo that pretty much sums up Morley's first pumpkin carving experience. So determined, yet so mad.

It's all fun and games until someone starts eating the pumpkin guts... 

Since Morley is a little too young for the traditional trick-or-treating excitement the night of, we instead visited Ripley's Aquarium with some friends and their kids for the Aquarium's yearly Gills & Ghouls event.

Morley and dad dressed up as unicorns, and I got to fulfill my lifelong dream of being the Little Mermaid.

Baby Unicorn: Carter's at Costco // Mom & Dad Adult Onesies: Target

And finally, on the night of Halloween, we hung out at Grandpa's house. Morley visited a few of the neighbours, but was quite content just watching all of the kids in their costumes.

Is that not the cutest little unicorn you ever did see?!

Happy November!

How do you celebrate Halloween? What did you do for baby's first Halloween? I'd love to hear!


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Halloween Blast from the Past

This year with Halloween being on a week night and Steve being out of town, I will probably just sit at home and watch scary movies, alone, with a glass of wine.  Who am I kidding, scary movies are not my thing! But the wine will definitely be present. How can I not be a fan of scary movies you may ask? Well, because I'm a total believer that they could all happen in real life. Possibly also one of the reasons I did not have many dolls as a child. And yes, I believe in ghosts and UFOs. I was the crazy kid that swore she saw a UFO out her bedroom window.

So, I stick to the "safe" Halloween movies. The ones without chainsaw-wielding men or paranormal activity. Here's a list of my favorite [safe] Halloween movies:

Do you have any favorite Halloween movies? 

While we're talking Halloween, let's take a quick look back at some of my costumes over the past 7+ years, my "ghosts of costumes passed", back to the days when dressing up for Halloween meant parties and $ beers. (I apologize in advance for not asking the permission of those of you in these pictures.)

Definitely not my finest moments, but definitely some amazing memories.

What's your favorite Halloween memory?