Every Halloween our church has a fantastic festival. We used to volunteer at it before we had Jocelyn, and this was the first year that she could really enjoy it! Jocelyn was a bumblebee, I was a crayon (yet again ... I think this makes five years of that costume), and Lee was, well, a daddy (not so original, but he was a great one!).
Here are my two favorite people:
Here are me and my sweet little girl (a little blurry!):
Note that she insisted upon wearing the pink crocs. The girl throws massive fits if I try to dress her in an outfit that has no pink in it!
Shooting some hoops with Daddy's help:
Putting pings on the rhino:
Loving the slide:
Yes, she did climb up and go down all by herself. Lee intended to go with her, but he set her down the first time and before he could climb onto the climbing area, Jocelyn had taken off and a couple kids had passed him. She did just fine on her own! I think some parents were questioning our decision to let her go on her own, but they just don't know our strong-willed, independent little girl! (I have NO idea where she gets it from!)
At the bottom:
Riding the pony (sorry these pics are bad but flash photography spooks the ponies so it wasn't allowed):
This is a bad pic, but I like something about the blurry-ness ...
Crawling through the play area:
Playing in the balls (note the stinger on the back of her costume):
Doing the bean bag toss (or, in Jocelyn style, the bean bag crawl-onto-the-game-and-place-in-the-hole game):
Trying to decide if it's worth trying to throw it or just crawling up to the hole:
Nah, I'll just walk around to the slide and drop it in!
For this game, she was catching butterlies with the nets ... and she actually caught a couple, but she mostly just watched the machine shoot them into the air!
Note the pumpkin in her hand (that Gammie, Shannon's mom, sent her last Halloween). She didn't trust us to hold her candy while she crawled through the tubes.
Time to go (note the stinger again!) ...
And the last shot of the night ... my two favorite people again!
I think one of the funniest things was when Jocelyn realized that all the brown bags at each game were filled with candy. I don't think she even understood what was in the shiny wrapper since she never has candy, but she caught on that it was something worth having. After two games, she determined that she would try to just bypass the game and go straight for the shiny stuff in the bag. Like mother, like daughter, I guess! (I, too, am known for my fondness of shiny things!)
