Trunk-or-treat

Because of Mina's hair, we decided to dress as the Flintstones this year! It was a lot of fun making the costumes and I think they turned out all right. We had a lot of fun dressing up for the ward trunk or treat and our only complaint is that it was cold! Mina had to be covered up most of the time. I only took her sweater off when we were taking some of the pictures.

We had frito pies in a bag, hot dogs, caramel apples, hot apple cider and lots of candy. They had a little parade to show off costumes and then the trunk or treating began. Mina caught on quickly what to do when trick or treating. She would stop occasionally to inspect her candy and would throw things out she thought she didn't want and then hand us a piece to open for her. We had to push her along at first. When someone let her grab her own candy from a bowl, she took enormous handfuls and tried to go for seconds. She acquired quite a bit of candy, which we actually gave a lot of away on Halloween night when kids came to our house. Haha. Mina doesn't really know what she's missing out on right now, and we'll keep it that way for a while.

I was standing on the bumper so she copied me.

She decided to sit in the middle of the road to drink her juice.

I don't know why she decided it was cool to sit in the gutter.

Too cute!

This is the look she gave us when we asked if she wanted to hold our hands. She didn't say anything. Just gave us this look. Funny.

She tried wearing her bucket on her head during the parade.

After a while she would squirm her way up to the front of the crowds to get candy.

She practically cleaned Dru out at the end. Haha.

Halloween

On Halloween night, we decided to take Mina just around our little street to trick or treat since she had so much fun at our wards trunk or treat. We had a warm ladybug costume that Dru's mom had gotten at a garage sale a while back and I wanted to get some use out of it. Mina had a blast and was so funny. She just loved knocking on doors. We only got her to say trick or treat a few times. Most of the time she would only say bye after she was given candy and was walking away. We also got her the little car you'll see in some of these pictures at a garage sale the day before. She's obsessed with it and climbs in it every time we go outside. Dru has been pushing her around the block in it every day when he gets home from work and Mina just thinks it's the coolest thing ever.

Fun outside

Mina still loves to go outside any chance she can get. We try to take her out at some point each day, whether it's with me while Dru's at work or with Dru after he gets home. She still loves to swing so we're still so glad we have a swing set right next to our house.

She loves to look at our neighbor's dog through the windows from our house so, of course, she ventured over to their yard to see the puppah when we went outside. She stood at the fence just laughing and saying hi to the dog and when it was time to go she would walk a few steps, stop, turn around and say "bye, puppah" while waving to it.

Oodles of noodles

Mina has recently grown to love noodles. She just loves to slurp them up. If they're not too messy I'll lay her blanket out so she can sit on the floor to eat them. I do this because it's so funny to watch her. Although I don't have pictures of her doing it, she will normally lay down to eat them. She'll roll to her tummy to pick one up and then roll to her back to slurp it up. It makes me laugh every time she does it. It's so funny.

Whenever she eats at the table she always props her leg up either onto her chair or actually onto the table. She likes to push on the table so that her chair rocks back. We can't put her chair too close to the table because that allows her to actually tip her chair all the back and fall to the ground. It only has happened once and I caught her on the way down. It was kind of funny, but scary because occasionally I'll walk away from the table while she eats to do something. If we're having a messy dinner, like the noodles in the pictures below, we strip her down and then just bathe her after dinner. She likes to rub food on her belly and legs and in her hair. So, it's a good thing she loves baths so much.