trick or treat, round one

Last night we went to our town's Halloween Festival.  It's the first year we've gone, and Rachel had a great time.  She's had her halloween costume for a couple of months, and it's been put away in the closet because she was so obsessed with it.  So the chance to wear it was absolutely thrilling for her.  

Speaking of thrilling, they were playing Michael Jackson's "Thriller" on the speakers at one point, and Rachel stopped in her tracks and started doing a very thriller-like dance.  My husband and I were cracking up, and I soooooo wish we had taken the video camera with us!  It was priceless.  How she learned to dance like that, I'll never know!

We couldn't believe how crowded it was.  We've heard a little bit about this event, but never too much, so we thought it wasn't that big of a deal. We were wrong.  We could barely park the car or maneuver our stroller around the crowd.

Rebecca was good while we were there, though she screamed in the car on the way there and the way home.  It was past her bedtime and she was exhausted, and here we were making her dress up and go out for the evening!  Poor little girl. 

Anyway, here are our little Care Bears.

See how crowded it was??

My eyes are closed in this picture, but I'm showing it so you can see Rachel's "belly badge."  She's "Funshine Bear."  At one point in the evening I called her to catch up to me and she said, "You can just call me Funshine Bear, Mommy.  Not Rachel."

And here's just a picture of a happy Rebecca from today, because I don't seem to get many of those pictures.

And here's an unrelated side note.  I was at church for MOPS today and when I went to pick up Rachel from child care the woman in charge told me, "You'd better watch out with this one.  All of the boys were picking her to be the goose during our Duck Duck Goose game!"  When I told my husband about it he said it was probably only because they knew she couldn't catch them!  When I asked her she said no, that she didn't catch any of them.  So I guess my daughter isn't going to be a track star.  But she makes a good goose, apparently!