Snow white

This year we were a little behind with Halloween shopping. So, a week before Halloween we took our little cutie pie shopping for a costume. Not necessarily excited, she came along with great spirits. She found a poorly made basket (the kind you get in dollar stores) with the ugliest little kitty inside. And she wanted that basket badly. She even said she doesn't want a costume, she doesn't want to go trick or treating, but she wants the basket. So mommy and daddy paid $15 and got priceless smiles all evening long. My little one said please and thank you so many times, I felt bad I even though of not getting her the basket with the ugly cat.

We found in the end an absolutely awesome costume. Catalina kept telling me she wants to be a princess, but I always think of the practicality. How can you show off a princess costume at 30F degree? I was looking mostly for a cow/lady bug/cute animal sort of costume that has enough padding to keep my precious girl warm. But I could not resist this:

The prettiest snow white ever! The costume is well made, has nice embroidery, and looks absolutely gorgeous on my kid. Plus, she can wear warm pants underneath and warm top. And if too cold, we'll put on a jacket. But I am really hoping for mild weather this Halloween, so everybody can enjoy my beautiful girl.

Farm trip

Not all is bad in the shark room :). Catalina's day are organized a farm trip. Parents were invited as well, so we waited excitedly for a whole month. When finally that day came, weather report announced cold rain. So glad the weather people don't know their stuff that well!

The day started a little antsy. We were 5 minutes late and Catalina's teacher gave mommy the sting eye. Since mommy does not like the teacher either, she continued with a smile. And this is what Catalina needed. Smiles and happiness. She cooperated with everything. She lined nicely to get outside the classroom, she held mommy's hand and hoped on the school bus. Only this step would have been enough for her to make a perfect day! She was so overly excited. She was big enough to ride a school bus! She smiled and smiled and smiled some more!

The ride to the farm was long and pleasant. A bus full of excited kids makes everybody happy! When we hopped off the bus we were loaded quite quickly on a hay ride. Catalina has been on quite a few hay rides this fall, but mostly fake ones, where you sit on a wooden bench and you have some hay around your feet. This one was the real deal! We set on hay, Catalina played and smiled some more.

Being a farm trip, at the end of it there was a pumpkin patch as well. Each kid was allowed to pick one pumpkin. Catalina was way more excited however about the corn maze and kept pulling mommy's hand to go there and play.

And she got to pick some corn and became the envy of a classmate (who got hers soon after we showed her how to do it).

Plenty of photo ops, and Catalina made mommy happy and sat still every time she was asked.

And she was one of the most patient kids when it came to take pics with the whole class. She smiled and looked pretty pretty pretty.

It was quite cold outside, so the last stretch of the visit was not quite pleasurable for mommy. But Catalina loved feeding the baby lama. She picked food from the ground and gave it to the her new friend :)

A pleasant morning with little sharks. And a very proud momma!