Halloween

I was feeling a little like a lame mom because we got Mabel a last minute Target costume, but it turned out to be adorable. By the end of the day, I just started saying "yes" when people asked me if I had made it. We went to a party at a friends house with a bunch of kids and we all went out trick-or-treating together. Frances had helped Mabel practice trick-or-treating at home earlier, so she was a pro. Watching Mabel trick-or-treat in her garden gnome costume was possibly the cutest thing that ever happened in the history of the world. She held on to her bucket almost the whole time, fought her way up stairs and around the bigger kids and reached into candy baskets.