Happy Halloween!

Joseph was really excited to finally go trick or treating on Halloween night, especially after all of the practice he'd gotten this year. Madeline was fairly ambivalent about the whole thing, but definitely wasn't happy about being worn facing out... but how else were we going to get pictures of her in her costume??

 

It didn't take Joseph long to figure out how to master the house to house process... he was super eager to run up to each door and ring the doorbell.

Mr. Fearless had no issues going up to each door by himself, but Joe and I took turns going up with him to make sure he was being polite. At one neighbor's house, the kids who lived there were on their way back inside as we were walking up. Joseph just kept on going right after them, and ended up in their living room before I could convince him to turn around and come outside!

He did great telling people "Happy Halloween!" or "trick or treat" when they came to the door, and didn't need too much prompting to tell them thank you after getting his candy.

We had gotten a bit of a late start, for taking a toddler out, that is, so I went with him and Joe for about half of the street before turning back with Madeline. It was starting to get chilly out, and I wanted to get back before we started getting lots of older kids hitting up the tray of candy we had left on our doorstep.

She's definitely been following in Mason's footsteps, sleeping through just about everything exciting! Of course, as soon as we got home, she stayed awake for a good chunk of the evening. Once she knows she's missing out, she becomes little miss nosey and doesn't want to fall asleep for fear of missing something.

Joe and Joseph made it to the end of the street and back before his candy bucket was completely full and it was way past dinner time. Joseph had just as much fun watching all of the kids come to the door and trying to help us hand out candy. By the end of the night, he'd run to the door when he'd hear or see someone, try to pick up the tray himself, and through the door would tell the kids to "just take one"... I think he was trying to ration as much for himself as possible!

It was definitely fun to take him, as this year there's no doubt he'd figured out Halloween. Thursday evening he found his costume on the floor, brought it over to me and said, "Mommy, Jojo wear cowboy outfit, get candies from houses again?" He was not happy to hear that trick or treating for the year was over, but we've got a whole bowl of candy for him to enjoy (and share with us) to make it less painful!