TREAT!

Halloween night we got all decked out...well, ok, Gillian got all decked out. Colin declined to wear a costume. Luckily, I outfoxed him by choosing a costume for him that was more like "outfit-like" and he was cool with that, just don't ask him to wear a hat.

Our original costume plan was for Colin to be Knuffle Bunny and G would be Trixie (from the books). Grammy Lynn even made an awesome Knuffle Bunny costume, but Colin's costume-phobia necessitated a change....so G was Knuffle Bunny and Colin was a "choo choo driver."




Our neighborhood is not the best for trick or treat, busy road, no sidewalks and all, so pre-Halloween our friend, Miss Laura, and I had made tentative plans to trick or treat in their neighborhood. Turns out, Miss Laura was a LITTLE busy on Halloween having a BABY! The little guy was 10 days early, but he wanted a BIG holiday for a birthday, apparently. Despite Miss Laura's absence, we did go to her house and help her two year old twins, Ian and Julia, (and their Dad) trick or treat!

Julia was a very cute Abby Cadabby:


Ian was not totally digging the costume thing either, but his Dad and Michael rigged up a pretty funny solution to the hat problem....


Uncle D was kind enough to come join us for trick or treat too, which brought us to the appropriate 1:1 ratio for going out with 2 year olds....



Oh, Julia really made good friends with Uncle D....


We went to about 10 houses and all the kids did really well! They caught onto the whole concept very quickly! They would walk up to a house, say "TREAT," grab a handful of candy, stuff it in their pumpkin, and say "THANKS!" Then run off to the next house! They were naturals! Pretty funny for kids that hadn't ever eaten candy!

And, here we are, four days post-Halloween and they are still digging through their TREAT pumpkins, wanting to see the jack o'lanterns, and yelling HALLOWEEN when they see left-over decorations as we drive around! Apparently, they had a GREAT time!