Halloween

Halloween this year was so much fun! We knew it would be since Eli is older now and could understand what was going on. It was nice of Heather's friend Kim to give Eli the dog costume and for Jaime to give us the bear costume for Mckenna. They looked so CUTE! At first I thought I was going to have to buy a new costume for Eli because the 3T dog costume didn't fit him in the torso. But with some help from the lady at the fabric store I got some fabric for 90 cents. Then with Judy's sewing magic the costume fit! When it was time to go and I got the costume on Eli, he was so funny and was acting just like a dog chasing his tail. He was going around in a circle saying, "Mom I have a tail!" and kept trying to grab it.

The best part though was taking Eli around to trick or treat. We went to our ward's Halloween party and what the kids say is, "Trunk or Treat!" Every one opens up their trunks and the kids go around to every car and get candy that way. We were working with Eli all week to teach him to say trick or treat and finally it was the moment of truth. We went to the first car and I asked him to say trick of treat and what came out was just a whisper. Our friend was nice and didn't make him say it again and gave him some candy in his pumpkin bucket. If only I would have had a camera for the look on his face when he saw the candy. He got so excited and from there on out it wasn't very hard to get him to say the words because he knew what he would get just by saying those three little words. He still didn't say it very loud but you could really tell he was having a good time.