Halloween weekend in Chicago

We spent Halloween weekend in Chicago with the Hawkins family. Abby finally got to meet the rest of the Hawkins/Walsh side of the family.
We went trick or treating with Abby's cousins: Cici, Katie, Maddie, and Michael. Abby was a princess (thank you Maya Morse for donating the dress). Cici was a kick ass Indiana Jones (totally cool costume idea in my opinion). The twins were pretty cute too, Katie was a witch, Maddie was Tinkerbell and little brother Michael was a monkey.

Abby wasn't quite sure what the whole trick or treating was all about but once the candy started flowing she was into it. It never did sink into her little head that the idea was: collect candy now > eat most of it later. Basically at every door she got confused & looked at the people like, excuse me why did you put it in the plastic pumpkin? I want to open it right now! I guess when you are 1.5 though you are allowed to be all about instant gratification :).

One thing I learned about her was that she especially loves lolipops, or pops (pronounced pawp).

After trick or treating we headed back to Beth's house for dinner and dancing. The music for the dancing was provided by Chris' very cool player piano. I think it is totally cute how Abby taps her fingers to the music and even trys to play the keys at one point before yelling out "Song!".

I've been a bit nostalgic for my ballrom dancing days lately. Chris Walsh has taken a few lessons so he lead me in a dance to the player piano music too. Check out Katie and Maddie trying to copy us :)

On Saturday we drove up to Rockton, IL to visit Tighe's sister Laura and her family. They are building a new house so we went out to the building site to view the progress. Tighe's parents were very happy to have almost all of their grandchildren together in one place for the first time. The only one missing was the oldest grandchild Tasha who is spending a semester in London. Someone will have to Photoshop Tasha's face over Carrie's in the photo below.