Costume Montage

A wonderful night of adventure was had by all. We made our first rounds out in the neighborhood. The past couple of years with T and E, we went to the mall as we figured there would be good candy and lots of kids. We were not correct in our assumption. Most of the candy was gone by the time we got there, 20 minutes after it started, and the kids there were mostly older kids who could get away with trick-or-treating at places where all their friends worked.

T was ready to go at around 3o'clock last Thursday, but managed to survive until last night. We left and hit the houses on our block and were already swimming in candy. Apparently the theory on our court is that since hardly anybody takes the time to walk the courts, take whatever you want. You want more candy, here take a couple more handfuls, no really take more. Which became my philosophy when the 7 kids came by our house later. They did pretty well for themselves.

We had been training T to say "Trick or Treat" when the door was opened, but he was more comfortable with "Hello. I'm Buzz Lightyear, she's Tinkerbell and she wants candy too." Which ended up working out OK for him and he did say "Thank You" to everybody so I was satisfied with that.

This little lady got the hang of things rather quickly. About the sixth or seventh house we went to had the lights on and the pumpkins out, but nobody was home (apparently). So T rang the doorbell and we were standing there for a few seconds and nothing happened, so our little princess started whacking the door with her wand and yelling for them to open up. I'm not sure exactly what she was saying, but I believe it was "Hey!! Open up this door and drop something into my pumpkin!!! I got dressed up and I'm walking around in this cold and you have lights on and should be giving me candy!!!" But I don't know if that's what she really said. It sounded like "OOoooeenn!"

We had to cross a few streets and in order to do that, I had to take that little pumpkin and pick her up. She fought me and whined until I put her down and she got her pumpkin back. Then all was cool again, but for those 10 seconds we spent walking across the street, bad things man. But all went well. Good hauls for both kids (or for us, you know, check the candy take the 'unsafe' ones away) and they had a great time. T now is preparing for his trip to D-Land with mom, and mom's parents. He's gonna wear that costume down there also. I wonder if he'll sign autographs?

Bonus picture: This is from T's preschools Halloween party, they had a parade and little pot-luck thing, and there was one kid in T's class who dressed up as Superman, had the cape, boots, fake muscle suit. And was wearing a Batman mask. It was the greatest costume I saw. You gotta enlarge this one to see the greatness.