After school today, Maile hit the courtyard for some trick or treating. Our neighbors were wonderful – we’re not a hot spot for trick or treaters, but they all made sure they had something for Maile Girl!
Okay, here I go - trick or treating time. I covered this with Mommy and Daddy: ring the bell, say trick or treat, get a treat, say thank you and Happy Halloween. Piece of cake!
Ok, deep breath, here we go...
Wait, Daddy, can we review this one more time?
Score!
(Dad note: Truth is that Maile asked what the treat was first. She actually “rejected” the candy at one house because it was chocolate. We had to explain that the real purpose of Halloween was to get candy for Mommy and Daddy, so she really should just take everything even if she doesn’t like it.)
Off we go to the next house!
Long time readers know that Maile Girl is very lucky because every year her Grandma Gail makes her a costume for Halloween.
In 2009 she was Totoro.
In 2010 she was a monkey.
In 2011 she was Elmo.
And, this year, she’s a PURPLE FLOWER!
Watering our new purple flower...
I'm growing! I'm growing!
View from the back
Why a purple flower? A few months back when Grandma Gail was visiting, she, Mommy and Maile were brainstorming ideas of what Maile could be for Halloween. When Mommy mentioned that once Grandma Gail made her a flower costume, Maile was sold! She wanted to be just like mommy.
And sure enough, here’s a picture from October 30, 1981 where word on the street is Mommy took 3rd place at the Big Save costume contest…
5 year old Mommy as a yellow flower
THANK YOU GRANDMA GAIL FOR ANOTHER WONDERFUL COSTUME!
After school today, Maile and Mommy carved up a pumpkin in a beautiful pumpkin kitty cat (Maile’s choice). They had a blast, although Mommy reported that Maile decided the pumpkin seeds and goop inside were quite icky.
Lots of icky stuff in there. Wait, I need to scoop it out?!
Okay, the top still fits on - whew!
We can put it outside? Fun!
The finished product - Maile's first jack-o-lantern!
Maile Girl is asleep, so we’ll need to tell her that she’s 2 for 3 in terms of World Series wins for the Giants for each year of her life.
My guess is, her celebration can’t get much better than this:
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Mommy and Maile made sugar cookies today. I actually don’t think Maile cared much about the cookies – but boy, oh boy, was she excited about the sprinkles!
What do you mean I need to brush my teeth tonight?
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The other night Mommy, Daddy and I made our very own pizza. Right in our own house! How cool is that? I made a cheese one and then I helped Daddy make a pepperoni and mushroom one. I’m not sure why Daddy bothers with those other things, the cheese is CLEARLY the best part of the pizza!
The key to a good pizza is a BIG handful of cheese!
It's really important to make sure the cheese is evenly spread - you don't want clumps.
Saying cheese next to some cheese pizza 🙂
The pizza was all full of cheese, so I just ate the rest by hand!
(Dad note: Maile’s pizza was DELICIOUS!)
Blue bear, blue bear, what do you see?
It’s been awhile since we did a Maile Minute-type video, so in this one you get a full 5 minutes of Q&A with Maile Girl (well, 4 minutes with Maile and a minute at the end where Maile turns the table on me…)
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On Saturday, we headed over to Ocean Beach to checkout a sandcastle competition that was going on. Maile was so excited by the sand that we actually didn’t spend much time at the actual competition. Maile (along with Sophie) were focused on building their own creations – well, the building is only a part of it – the true fun is in the destroying of the castles!
Ocean Beach here I come!
Maile Girl building her entry for the sand castle competition
Hard at work on her castle...
YOU - get to work on the castle!
Building sand castles is fun!
But stomping on the castles is MUCH...
...MUCH MORE FUN!
My daddy has wax in his ears – he asks me what type of ice cream I want. I say “va-nilla” and then he says he is going to get me all types of crazy flavors. What a joker!
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