Mallory's First Halloween: The pranks, pumpkins and parties.

I decided early on not to stress over trying to get the cutest costumes or carve the perfect pumpkins. In fact, I wasn't even planning to buy Mallory a costume. But, while shopping, this little peacock number just jumped out at me!

And, we found these quick and easy pumpkin ideas that (we think) turned out pretty perfect! 

The carving begins!

Mommy being gross… but making her girls laugh

Scooping out the goop

The final pumpkin products:

Alyson's Cinderella pumpkin

Nicole's "I'm going crazy!" pumpkin

We traced Mallory's hands and feet for her first pumpkin.

Baby hands and feet

Oh, hey… let's put Mallory in a pumpkin!

Hmmm… she's not quite fitting...

There. That's better. (She likes it!)

But, with no hat… hmmm … what about...

Trust me, she didn't care for the longest time. Then, suddenly, the pumpkin wasn't cool anymore.

But these ghost cookies are definitely cool!

Nicole made this one to look like Charlie Brown's ghost costume with all the holes. (If you ask me, she just wanted one with a lot of chips.)

A couple of days later I decided to try the pumpkin again with a cleaned up, bow-wearing Mallory. How cute is she???

Okay. So now we come to the night before Halloween. 

Mallory sported her night-before pi's… 

Evidently, October 30th was prank day. And Nicole thought it was really funny to pull pranks on Mommy. But, she fell asleep before the day was over… as indicated by the note I attached to her hair.

She woke up with a mustache.

And a visitor in her booster seat.

I also wrote on their mirror for the next morning.

This pumpkin says, "Trick or Treat! Gimme some candy!"

Mallory wore her little ghost tutu at Allyson's request on Halloween day.

And we had our usual "bloody worms" (hot dogs and ketchup) for dinner.

Finally, it's time to dress up! Nicole wanted to be a cat. Allyson was Belle and then there's our precious peacock.

With our sweet neighbor, Kim Suffelette. Our first trick or treat house!

 After trick or treating we went to our church festival and enjoyed games and candy.

Allyson fell in love with this play set in the "I Spy" room

We didn't spend a lot of time outdoors as it was pretty chilly.

But we did spend enough time to let Nicole climb a rock wall for the first time!

She climbed just like a cat!

A tuckered little baby.