Halloween

Growing up, I remember asking my mom why there was a special day for Mom's and Dad's but not for the kids. Her reply was that Halloween was the holiday set aside for the kids, which I am sure was the first thing that came to her mind that's answer would satisfy my question... So, for Halloween this year we took Maysie trick-or-treating to our neighbors- just our culdasac and the culdasac that is right behind ours since we always combine the block parties and all since Halloween is for the kids, and Maysie is now a little kid and not a baby anymore. :) At first she didn't quite know what to think about it... Well lets face it, she didn't like the first house at all until she got some candy thanks to the annoying witch decoration that starts talking when someone gets close to it... (When you hear this thing going off constantly, it gets annoying - believe me). When we got to the next house, and she got some more candy, boy oh, boy, she discovered that she really liked to go trick-or-treating. She was practically running to all the other houses too bad us mean parents wouldn't let go of her hand or she would have visited a whole lot more homes before we could catch up to her. She was so funny holding her little candy bucket up at the door steps and baaing (or barking if there happened to be a dog at the house.) whenever the door was opened. I guess that saying trick-or-treat is a little too complicated to say still :) Everyone loved her little lamb costume! What can I say, she is quite a catch - especially when she is dressed up in a cute little costume that has a fun texture to it that makes anyone want to reach out and touch it.... :) Next year will be even funner when she can really talk, and jump into the spirit of things... After we got back home and was handing out candy to the other anxious trick-or-treater's that visited our house, Maysie would reach into our candy bowl and gab a piece of candy and hurry and put it into her own candy bucket... I think she wasn't done trick-or-treating by the time Rob and I was ready to go home... :) Now she has quite the loot of sweets, that I am sure her dad and I get to enjoy more than she will although we did allocate all the M&M's and the suckers to Maysie to eat.