BOO! Happy Halloween

It was a cold and dark night.... and so the story goes. LOL. Actually, it was a dark night, but wasn't that cold.... warmer that it had been the previous few nights, which was wonderful. The 12 degrees or so was most welcoming as it'd dipped down to low single digits! We've had the heat on, but not all the time as the girls have had this horrible cold which brought on this bad cough that kept the girls awake a couple of nights (and thus US awake!). It is funny though, how our ears are trained to hear what we're supposed to hear. Daddy only hears Bibou coughing / crying while I only hear Angel's!! We were so tired that we really didn't realize that the other had woken up. Anyway, yes, we keep the heat turned off some nights so that it wouldn't be too dry and cause them to cough.



So on halloween, we got the girls all dressed up in their costumes; Bibou in her Tigger cape (yes, Winnie the pooh theme) and Angel in a very adorable 'bear' nightie. Bibou was all excited when we were dressing them. Daddy had explained what was gonna happen, and I think it was the fact that she was all 'dressed up' that got her most. She was all giggly about Angel in her costume and thought that she looked adorable. She couldn't wait to get out of the door. We headed out to meet the 'gang' (our neighborhood street organizes this trick or treating for our streets, as T&T is still not quite popular yet) on the next street. However, as we got closer to the fab group of witches and ghouls (the kids were superbly made up), Bibou got really very very scared. She didn't want to go near any of the scary people and started whimpering that she wanted to go home. She jumped immediately into Daddy's arms. Things got a little worst when the other kids saw her and Angel and thought they were just too cute and wanted to cuddle them!!!!! Can you imagine for poor Bibou? Anyway, we kept her in our arms for a while (I swapped with Daddy) and tried to explain to her that it was all the neighbourhood kids that she knew, but dressed up. We also showed her that it was there was candy to get! For the first few houses, I had her on my shoulders and got the candy for her! All the other kids were really sweet on our girls (and as daddy said, we have some very maternal girls on our street. They were all so concerned about them, making sure that Bibou had her candy, that she wasn't too scared etc. They were making googoo eyes at Angel too, saying that they wanted to baby sit her!). After a while, Bibou really warmed up to it all (especially when she saw all the candy). And soon, she was shouting "les bon bons" with everyone (French version of trick or treat!). She also learnt how to squeeze to the front to get her share of her candy (I LOVE that pix on the right that shows a sea of black and then a tiny little orange cape on the right - that's my Bibou getting her candy). In fact, towards the last few houses, Bibou ran, I mean RAN to keep up with the older kids. It was such a funny sight, one hand swinging her little green bag, and the other holding on to her Tigger 'head'. My Bibou.







Oh yes, her face is all cut up, (though is much better now, is this picture of her when she first fell), because she was running around the school yard with her hands in the pockets (a new habit of sorts that we can't seem to break) and of course, when she fell, she couldn't break her fall. It looked really bad the first few days, her eyes were all swollen and I was really upset. But she was all right in the end.