Our Family's Halloween

Our Family's Halloween:

(Its hard to see his little cub ears here but i promise you they're there! Along with a giant red lip stained kiss mark on his hand from his grammy who was dressed up as the Queen of Hearts)

I just had to show you guys this adorable little lion cub all done up! His costume was so easy, so cozy, so adorable, and such a hit with everyone (i talked about his DIY costume in this post here: Happy Halloween: DIY Costume). I couldn't stop myself from cuddling this little fur ball all night... Okay, well, all of the whole two hours that we were out.  Lol, when you have a little one this young (as most of you mamas know) they don't have much awake time and once it's time to sleep you best be heading home to get them to bed! We usually get him ready for bed at 5:30 (this is the time his littl body tells us he's tired and ready) we put him down at 6pm and he self soothes and falls asleep by 6:30. So we went over my sisters house at 5:30 with both of my sisters families and their kiddos & all the grandparents, and then my friend Kelly and her little fam.  We of course took a billion pictures, mingled, and ate pizza. Then we took the littles out for trick or treating around 6:15-6:30, I put Cash in his carseat with his Sleep Sound Lamb (a stuffed animal sound machine that makes noise to help babies fall asleep easier), and draped a cover over him so he wasn't stimulated by all the trick or treaters. We made it to about 5 houses and decided to call it a night.  It was just too loud for my little guy to fall asleep. Kids were running around screaming house to house, as expected on Halloween. He's just at that age where he wants to be part of the party going on outside. He wasn't crying or fussy, he was content all snuggled up in his carseat watching as kids ran by but this mama knows best and I know he would be all thrown off the rest of the night and next day!

So we took him home before he was over-stimulated and had him fed and in bed by 7:15pm. Only 45 minutes past when he usually falls asleep..but this little guy wasn't ready to end the night. So he layed there for another 30 minutes before finally crashing. Poor guy, I try to think of how he feels and be selfless. I know it's fun to take yor kids out and live our lives according to our own schedule but really his well-being is more important to me. He needs sleep to grow and for his little brain to develop & so he is a happy well rested boy! We love how happy he is and how he rarely is ever fussy! And I think we owe that all to sticking to a routine(for the most part).. Babies thrive off routine. This has been a very challenging part of parenthood (giving up our old lives, when we want to go somewhere and have to stay in because its his bed time or because he needs a nap, etc) but its all so so worth it and makes those date days and date nights even more appreciated and so much more fun!!

Im not sure how I managed to turn this post into my parenting guilt (haha), but we had a blast on Halloween and it was so worth keeping him out 45 mins extra so he (i mean WE) could experience his first Halloween together with all of our family.  We are really looking forward to next year when this little guy is walking around!

I hope you had a great time with your families on Halloween as well!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween all! I get so excited for Halloween solely for the excuse to dress up! I love love love designing costumes and coming up with creative ideas! This year my husband and I decided not to dress up (we usually do every year) and to make it ALL about Cash. Deciding on what to dress him up as was a little bit of a challenge. We wanted him to look cute, be comfortable, and to be something later in life he'd not be too embarrassed by, and still be unique!

The fun part for me is creating the costume. I love doing DIY projects. So this year he's going to be a baby lion cub! I found the sweetest little hat on etsy that is handmade to fit his sweet little face. I then found a furry jacket to match and then some brown leggings.  We wanted to do little paws but I couldn't find anything that would work so we settled on some adorable brown baby uggs (they're actually the same uggs we held in our hands for our pregnancy announcement holiday card last Christmas, so adorable that now he's here to wear them!).  I was going to make his costume with fur on his tummy on one of his onesies but it will be way to cold for him to wear that at night trick or treating. So the jacket worked out great! My favorite part is going to be the whiskers and tiny nose I'm going to draw in his chubby little cheeks and sweet button nose! 

I can't wait to see him all done up.  I'll share some photos later, but I just wanted to wish everyone a happy halloween and tell everyone to be safe and have fun! 

We'll be trick or treating with our friends and family tomight  It's very special because it's Cash's first Halloween as well as his cousins who turns one this Saturday! They're 8 and a half months apart and I found out I was pregnant 1 week after he was born! We are so excited for them to be so close in age and grow close as they get older!

Eat lots of candy & take tons of photos!

Have a lovely day!