Halloween 2014

Here are some photos from Halloween! Leah told us months in advance that she wanted to be Queen Elsa from Frozen. She never once changed her mind so we just rolled with it. I have purposely avoided buying any type of costume princess dresses, because I knew she would want to wear it 24/7. For her, wearing a "princess dress" was being able to wear any type of dress.  When we showed Leah the Elsa dress we bought for her, the look of excitement on her face was priceless! Since Halloween, it has been a special treat to be able to wear it around the house.

Leah originally wanted Ava to be Anna, but I couldn't find an Anna costume small enough! Leah then said "Ava can be Olaf then, because Olaf is smaller than Anna." I took an old white onesie and glued on Olaf's face with felt. It was super easy! Matt mentioned dressing up as Kristoff the day of Halloween. He was able to make his costume out of stuff he already had around the house {including that blonde wig!}. I didn't want to be the only one not in costume, so I used the left over felt from Ava's Olaf to try to make reindeer ears for Sven! I'm pretty impressed with our day-of costumes! Two years ago, we dressed up as Laker girls {see photo here}, so I'm really happy we ended up doing family costumes again. We're definitely going to make it a tradition! Can't wait for next year!

*top 3 photos by Bob Cho

Frozen

Leah has been totally immersed in the Frozen craze. While we've made it a point not to have a house full of princess costumes and toys, we have given in slightly to Frozen. I can no longer count the times we've watched the movie, and Leah will put socks on her hands or wrap a blanket around her for a train on a dress and pretend she's Elsa. 

At Disneyland, the line to see Anna and Elsa averaged 2-3 hours! There was no way I was willing to do that, so I didn't even mention them to Leah whenever we went to Disneyland. Recently, Disneyland implemented a ticketed system where you wait for a timed ticket and go back during that timeframe. My parents were so kind to go to Disneyland at 8am and wait to get the timed ticket, and then we went back at 1:50pm and waited all together for another 30 minutes. Needless to say, Leah was SO happy. She gave them hugs, talked to them, and took pictures. Seeing the look on her face was priceless. I'm excited that she was able to get this opportunity!