Happy Halloween!

Since Madison's birthday is on Monday, she decided that she wanted to have a Halloween Birthday Party this year. So Halloween morning we got dressed up and ready for the party. Fortunately we had the space and were able to have it at the house this year. Kids started arriving all dressed up and ready to celebrate Madison's birthday. We had a fun Halloween theme filled party. Kids decorated their own pumpkins, played games, ate spooky snacks, got a few tricks played on them, sang Happy Birthday and watched Madison open her presents. It was fun to see Madison enjoying being the center of attention and acting silly and embarrassed at times. All the kids seemed to have a great time...especially Madison! After her party she got to open gifts from the family. She was so grateful and overwhelmed by all the presents. She looked around and said, "Wow, it looks like Christmas in here!" And it truly did. Her friends and family were really generous, giving gifts that will keep her busy for many months to come! She was truly appreciative for the party, and she showed it. She gave us big hugs and said that it was the best party ever! Later when she saw me cleaning something up, she told me, "Stop Mommy, you've done enough today for me. I'll get it." What a sweet heart! She deserved everyone of those presents she got!!

After we rested and played for a while we recovered ourselves and got ready for the night. We went to a friend's house, The Montgomery's, this year for dinner and trick-or-treating. I could not believe that Madison wore her wig all night. She loved dressing up, as usual. Her favorite part was when someone didn't recognize her at first. It cracked her up! Hudson had a blast too! When he was being strolled around he just waved to everyone saying, "I am choo-choo" and blew his whistle just a like a train. It was too cute! It also didn't take him long to figure out the process either. He would run up the the door and yell, "Trick-Treat" and "Thank you", and then take off running back to his stroller for the next house. Finally he got a little delirious and started pushing his own stroller and making train noises and sound effects. They both had an extremely fun Halloween....and so did we!

Here is a slide show of the day and night.