Trick-Or-Treating

Last year we went trick-or-treating in our neighborhood but this year we couldn't find any other little kids in the area to go trick-or-treating with so we got in the car and drove uptown to State Street. Every year they close off State Street to cars so it is safe for everyone to walk in the street and run around. This place looks like somewhere characters in a movie would go trick-or-treating, big old beautiful houses, wonderful old Oak trees making a canopy over the street, everyone friendly and sitting out with big bowls of candy people in costumes everywhere and nearly every house has decorations some with fog machines and sound effects, it was great. The first house we went to had skeletons all over the yard doing fun and funny things like climbing trees and playing with hula hoops, Chance was very interested but not scared at all he walked up to the front door with us but wasn't quite ready to say "trick-or-treat" they decided to give him some candy anyway and they were rewarded with a very sweet "thank you."
Oh I just realized I forgot to tell you that Chance was a Mummy. We made all of our costumes, Chance's costume was the best he was mummy from head to toe, Scott and I had 'mummy mommy' and 'I'm just the mummy's daddy' shirts respectively.
Anyway, after the first house we moved on down the street trick-or-treating from door to door. At first Chance just said 'hi' then he said 'Halloween' then finally he started saying 'trick-or-treat' and by that time he was good to go. He even visited the last couple houses on his own without one of us holding his hand.
Near the end we ran into two of our friends from the playgroup, Nancy and Andrea and their little ones, Octavian (Thing 1, with blue hair) and Alyssa (Ballerina) and Avi all the little guys seemed really happy to see each other in the crowd of unfamiliar faces. He was so cute carrying his basket and saying "trick-or-treat" such a big boy. By the end of the evening he was so tired we were carrying him back to the car and he was all floppy like little ones get.

I still want to get pictures from the Halloween party that we had last wek up on the blog but haven't gotten around to it yet, soon I promise.