Raising Rosalie: Boo Who? Rosie Roo!

Rosalie's skeleton costume

To celebrate her first Halloween, we dressed Rosalie up as a skeleton. Originally I was going to try and make her an octopus costume that I saw on pinterest but when we couldn't find any cute tights, I went for the $10 glow in the dark skeleton onesie from Carters. It was a good thing too because Rosalie was in the Ergo with me for some of Halloween night so those octopus legs would have been cumbersome. Plus the skeleton was way easier.

My parents were visiting for the Halloween weekend and got to spend some quality time with Rosalie and her cousins, Ella, Mimi and Isaac. Check out the grandparent and grandkids (minus Logan and Max) photo. Ella was Dora the Explorer, Mimi was Boots (but not in costume here), and Isaac was Batman wearing a ghost shirt.

Mom and Dad with the CA grandkids

Because our neighborhood is known for some pretty good trick-or-treating, we invited extended family over for the evening. That meant that I had to put at least some decorations up. I had big plans for making a graveyard of tombstones in our front yard, but was only able to get around to decorating our garage. The idea was again from pinterest and I got some of the templates from good ole' Martha Stewart. Adam put up the fence and I enlisted my dad to help me cut out the bats, mice and other halloween animals that we taped to the garage door. The final product came out pretty good. It rained most of the morning, so we quickly put this up in the late afternoon once the rain subsided.

Our Halloween Decorated Garage

In total, we had 17 people at our house for Halloween night. Mom made a yummy dinner and all of the kids had fun trick or treating in the neighborhood.

While the kids were out trick or treating, Adam and my dad passed out candy and my mom and I played with Isaac and Rosalie. Mom read them books while I tried to get photos of them side by side. The first picture of them is a little deceiving because it looks like Rosalie is about the same size as Isaac. The second photo more accurately shows the size difference between the two. Isaac is 6 weeks older than Rosalie and is about 6 pounds heavier.

Isaac and Rosalie (sans her skeleton suit)

The Skeleton and the Ghost

Rosalie was a little overstimulated with the gathering and cried it up big time before she went to sleep that night, but I think overall she had fun. At least we did. :)

She continues to sleep really well and her smiles keep coming. In addition, she's cooing more which I hope to catch on video sometime soon.