Halloween on Halloween

As you can see here on the blog, we kinda celebrated Halloween for a couple of weeks. Personally, I did this by design. I wanted Josie to have the Halloween experience because I feared she wouldn't get the typical trick-or-treat fun due to her peanut allergy.  But, as trick-or-treat actually arrived, we decided to head out with our friends Fred, Liz & Joey and "borrow" their neighborhood for some Halloween fun. As it turns out, Josie ended up going "trick-or-treating" afterall. She was so cute. And something about walking our daughter up and down the street on Halloween really made me feel like a parent.  People were very polite when they offered something nutty. They just grabbed something safe from their bowls. Then when we got back to the house, we removed the occasional Snickers and let Josie have her first real candy. She loved the Nerds the most! And, long story short, she finally went to sleep that night at about 10pm cuddling with her two glowsticks that she refused to let go.  All-in-all it was a night of making special family memories.  Here are a few photos.  The first ones are of Josie marching down our block with her special cookie from a neighbor in our building.

 

And here's a video of her running around very excited before we left.  She really loves dressing up in costumes.  Enjoy!

 

Halloween @ The Zoo

Oh - the Cincinnati Zoo. We just love it there. And HallZOOween is just one of the many great reasons we do. Here are some photos from our afternoon there last weekend.  We were very lucky to be joined by my best friend Suzie, Kenny & her little Makayla.  What a perfect way to spend an Autumn Sunday.  Enjoy! 

 

 

 

And I can't go without mentioning the fact that the cheetahs spotted Tiger-Josie and *totally* made eye contact, raised up the fur on their backs, and starting inching toward her. It was scary, although everyone laughed at me because I thought they were actually going to leap 30 feet out of their valley to come and get us.  Still, pretty crazy.