Perfect Seasons: Halloween 2012

The Halloween conversation starts early at our house, since picking a costume is a important and key step in enjoying the holiday. Numerous catalogs start coming here around the beginning of September and we would catch Suhana lounging on the couch looking through all the costumes. She would ask what she should be, like a hundred times! Last year she was a bumblebee and I totally thought she would be something different this year, but no. We ended up picking ladybug costume! It was from the same company (I'm pretty sure) and she refused all the other suggestions that Avikar and I had for her. In the end she was adorable and she loved wearing her costume. That's all that matters.

And Jiana was a giraffe, a adorable giraffe if I say so. Don't judge, we used Suhana's first Halloween costume! It needed one more use before it was packed away for good.

On Halloween, we went to the Cerritos Regional Park to the carnival they have set up. Its a fun place with food, rides and of course a haunted house. Suhana is still young for the haunted house but she surprised both Avikar and I this year by demanding to go on a big ride. This was one of those big buses that propel high in the sky and make a full circle. I totally tried to talk her out of it, because I am imagining going up on that ride with her and her screaming to stop it and flailing in my arms! But she was very insistent, and a 3 year old knows how to make a point. So we took her and boy did she surprise us.. she was completely fine on the ride. She smiled and looked around and thought it was really cool. Wow! I was so proud of her and amazed at what she is ready for at this age.

And Jiana had actually fallen asleep in the 3 minute car ride to the park, so she slept most of the time at the carnival. Then we came home and got our pumpkin and went trick or treating around our neighborhood. It was a lot of fun, and this year Suhana was totally in the spirit of saying "trick or treat" and intent on filling her bucket. (which Avikar and I are now eating!) It was a successful Halloween and I can't wait for Jiana to enjoy it more next year.