Halloween 2009

Walking into someone's house to check out their toy selection---while we were trick-or-treating.
Helping Dad carve the pumpkin--and not really understanding why her baby butter knife wasn't working properly.
We let her have a mini Tootsie pop so she was in a slight sugar coma in this picture.
This is the look of terror......she had already tossed the candy and was trying to jump into Grandma's arms.

So this is Taylor's 2nd Halloween and she--I think--finally got the concept of knocking and saying Trick or Treat!! Of course, when she was actually looking at someone she would whisper it. Then she would put her head in her bag and stare at amazement that someone just gave her something for no apparent reason. Of course, Josh and I were more excited about the candy because we'll be the ones actually eating it :)
On Friday night we took her to Boo Fest in Baraboo where she helped Grandma Monica hand out candy to all the trick-or-treaters downtown. She was hilarious because it almost looked as though she was making everyone "earn" their candy. She would hold out the candy, look at everyone up and down, stare at them a little longer, and then finally drop the candy in their bucket. If you were one of the costumes that happened to have your face completely covered, well, then TG would drop whatever candy bucket she was holding (throw it actually) and jump into the arms of whichever of her people were close by enough to grab. It was sad that she was scared, but hilarious at the same time!!