Saturday was Ada’s first Halloween. For quite some time, I really thought about going all out and dressing her up as a flapper… or Charlie Chaplin… or something else amazing. The holiday got closer and closer and I gave up, telling myself it was OK to downplay everything this year since Ada 1) will never remember it and 2) can’t even dream about enjoying the fruits of her trick-or-treating labor at this point.

The family opted for a casual day at Como Park. We still sort of dressed Ada up by zipping her into a blue bunny suit that we inherited from Steve’s side of the family. Of course, she’s a monster and was nearly too long to be comfortable, but didn’t complain about it at all.

Turns out that a really cold, rainy holiday in the off season is the time to hit up the zoo! There were barely any people there which was super great for getting some good, close-up views of the animals. We even saw the baby orangutan (which, we figure, it at approximately the same developmental state as Ada.)

Ada took her first ride on the carousel as well. Though a little shocked by the motion at first, she really warmed up to it by the end and was singing along with the organ tunes.

Silly us for dressing her in blue. All day long we were asked how old “he” is. One of these days I’ll learn the skill of always accessorizing her outfits with a bow to make it easier on everyone. Or not.

After the zoo, we went on a mad hunt for pumpkins at the last minute. (Steve really loves carving pumpkins.) It took three stops before we finally found a store that still had them in stock on Halloween day. Totally worth the time spent on our hunt because this is what we ended up with:

I will never be able to compete with Steve’s creativity or carving skills (Look at that T. Rex!), but my little jack-o-lantern face isn’t the worst creation of all time. Seems I have a lot of practicing to do in the off season, though.