{not so} happy halloween

So I've decided that babies just know when you have something special coming up. They know you have all these super adorable photo opps in mind that you can't wait to take. And they plan their best meltdown. Or, in our case, to start teething. If you read my post about this lovely adventure to our local pumpkin patch then you know exactly what I'm talking about.  (please note that my baby was at least appropriately dressed this time around...)

I couldn't WAIT for halloween. I've known since she was maybe 3 days old that she just had to be a bumblebee and I just  had to make her costume. For some reason I thought a bumblebee was creative? Apparently so did half of the mom's at our trick or treat festivities.... Anyways, I made the costume. And it looked like it. But that's okay, I still thought it was pretty darn cute.

Apparently, Campbell didn't share in her mama's excitement. We met up with our friends the Kellers and their little guy Chewbaca (now that's creative) who wasn't exactly excited either.  After an attempted photo shoot, we loaded our cranky, yet adorable babies up and walked down to the village trick or treat festivities. Let's just say Campbell was not exactly the happiest bumblebee on the block. The meltdown started just about the time I got her dressed and lasted until she cried her little pterodactyl bumblebee self to sleep on the stroll down to the shops.   I'll let the pic's do the talking. We were at least able to squeeze out 1 semi-cute family pic.

If you want the full experience, watch this video that Mat made. Just make sure you scroll down to the bottom & stop the blog music so you can really get the full experience if you know what I mean...

(fyi - I'm having trouble getting blogger to load vimeo... any advice out there??)

family pic

the drama unfolds...

Please note the lovely scowl...

enjoying the festivities with the Santa Pumpkin Patch...