Memory #4

Halloween is my favorite time of the year. We had started new traditions with Liberty. We always went to the same pumpkin patch in Sauvie Island. A very beautiful place to make memories. She loved the bumpy wagon rides to pick the best pumpkins we could find, always ending the trip with a super sized frosted sugar cookie. Every year Libby would get a white pumpkin and I would carve her name into it. She had a blast trick or treating each year in downtown Tigard. Halloween was an exciting time for all of us. Mommy always dressed up and acted like an excited child with her :) Libs last Halloween was probably the happiest I had ever seen her. We were still at the Ronald McDonald House of Palo Alto, we went to the mall across the street, then to a small neighborhood in the area trick or treating. Mommy had bought a snow white costume, but Libs cried whenever she seen it. Running out of time for shopping for a costume, we didn't know if we would even participate in Halloween activities, and I wasn't really pushing the idea considering her immune system issues. The Ronald McDonald House had a room set up of costumes for the children in the house. Lib went down one morning and to our complete surprise she picked a pirate costume. I didn't know how she even knew what a pirate was. She started talking about pirates and didn't want to take the costume off. That costume made her so happy. We had a blast that night, we were out pretty late for a 4 year old but she didn't want to stop, and with her smile how could I say no :)
 
Libby fell asleep quickly that night. The next morning she sat up and ran to her bag of candy as fast as she could, she was still happy about the night before, but she looked like a zombie :) she had a Halloween hangover. Liberty didn't eat by mouth at this point but she was still thrilled because our Halloween wasn't about eating candy, it was about dressing up, having fun, and laughing our heads off.