Festival #3 and we're off to Trick-or-Treating

I can not tell you how many times I hit the snooze button this morning. Whew. Last night we went to 3 different places.

Trick-or-Treat
We started at a church festival. It was nice, but all ndoors and very crowded. We met up with Zach and his family there. They had a lot of the same games as at the Y and the children had fun…but we soon split for new adventures. We went to mill village near our apartments and did the traditional “Trick-or-Treat”. (Robin and Nicholas say “Happy Halloween” instead of Trick-or-Treat) Most people were sitting out on their very lit porches in small groups. One home was decked out in haunted garb, which was exciting for Zach…not so much for Nicholas. I took him and we went down the road a way. The rest of the time he tried to figure out how to get back to the car without going past that house again!

We came across a fire station in that neighborhood. The boys were very excited about going up to them…the doors were all open, all the lights were on, and the firemen were all hanging out by the trucks giving out candy from a big metal washtub. Robin was more cautious. I held her hand and just as we got to the firemen she said, “Are they scary?” (loud enough for them to hear it) The man beside the washtub said, “No way! We have candy.” So I told her, “See, they’re a bunch of nice men with big trucks.” After making a big loop (to avoid the scary house) we decided to all go back to our apartment. The men would order pizza and Amy and I took the children all over…up and down stairs…for about 45 minutes.

The Great Candy Swap
By the time we got back to the apartment the children were starving! Robin suggested to bypass the pizza and enjoy all of her new candy, especially the gummy savers. After a little pizza, the children all traded candy. Nicholas gave away all of his chocolate bars, Robin took them all, Robin didn’t want to give any candy away even though Zach made every attempt to “shop” in her candy pile.

The parents, well we were very well behaved. We sorted through the candy, looking for torn wrappers and mysterious candy, all the while coaching our child on what NOT to give away. (I think Brian really likes Butterfingers, Amy wants ANY kind of chocolate, and Rob was torn with what he wanted and what he thought would be wise to keep in the house!)

“Halloween Came”
When we moved to greenwood, we stored all of our Fall and Winter clothes in mom’s basement. Since the recent cool weather, I have arranged with mom to get 5 or so Rubber maid tubs from her basement. So, at work on Monday (Halloween eve) I made the swap with mom. Later that evening, after the children had gone to bed, Rob and I got them out of the car and put them in the living room. The next morning, having anticipated the festivities of Halloween, Robin woke up very excited, and when she saw the boxes she exclaimed “Halloween came!!”
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