Celebrate! Unity

Today was the first official celebration of the holiday season. As we celebrated with our little giraffe (Unity's costume) we enjoyed a relaxing seasonal mood and lifted spirits. This past week Unity has been busy with seasonal party's and spooky events. Halloween is one of our favorite holidays and today Unity celebrated her first Halloween with us.

Last weekend we took Unity to Roger Williams "Spooky Zoo". Spooky Zoo is an event designed for children. The zoo is all dressed up in spooky Halloween garb with themed events for children. Unity dressed up in her Halloween costume and enjoyed the fun crowd, live music, and of course her favorite animals.

Later in the week Unity attended her first Halloween party at Bellani. Bellani is where Jessica and I bring Unity for her weekly play groups. This is a great opportunity for her to interact with other children her age and for parents to collaborate about how they enjoy their children and what tricks work for them. At the Halloween party another girl was dressed up as a green fairy and her outfit made Unity laugh so hard. Every time the little green fairy walked by Unity would fall to pieces.

Today we spent the morning with a tasty breakfast and spooky stories. We finished our morning in East Greenwich where we caught the after of the communities Halloween parade. It was unseasonably hot today so Unity did not wear her giraffe costume. In the afternoon we all played in the leaves as the wind picked up and then in the evening we took Unity out trick-or-treating around the neighborhood. All our neighbors got quite a kick out of Unity and some had special Halloween gifts for her. Unity had so much fun walking from house to house in her giraffe costume. She was bouncing and laughing the whole time!

Unity ended her day playing with her new toys and watching The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. We have been slowly transitioning her to a later bed time all week with hope that she adjusts without pause from DST back to EST. After Unity fell asleep we attempted to light a fire outside to commence our Halloween tradition. But as usual in RI it was rained out. This is the forth year in a row that our Halloween has been rained out.

Unity had a great first Halloween! We are in full anticipation of the coming holidays and are excited to have Unity here to join in the festivities.