Happy Halloween 2008

As you know, we moved Courtney to a new daycare somewhat recently. Our last daycare didn’t celebrate any holidays, or birthday, or anything. Our new daycare actually celebrated Halloween! So, Courtney went to daycare in her costume yesterday morning. She didn’t wear it all day, but it was sure cute seeing all the kids dressed up that morning! The parents were invited to come back at 4pm for a Halloween party. They had a parade of all the kids so you could see everyone’s costume. All the parents brought something to the party, we brought sliced cheese. There were cupcakes, cookies, fruit, drinks, and more. After the parade, they let the kids dig in. Courtney had part of a cookie, part of a cupcake, some cheese, juice, and fruit. Yes, they were plying them with sugar just before we take them home for the evening to go out and get more sugar.

We came home and ordered pizza. After pizza we finally headed out to Trick or Treat.

Courtney survived her first Trick or Treating. We went to our neighbors’ house across the street first who she knows pretty well. Of course we couldn’t get her to say “Trick or Treat” but she said please and our neighbor had a nice bag all done up for her. Ms. Lisa (the neighbor) wanted to get some pictures of Courtney, so we were hanging out while she took some, and kids starting coming to the door in droves. Courtney would see the kids in masks and get scared. She kept saying “scary, scary” and crawled up in Daddy’s lap.

We moved on to another neighbors' house and she finally said Trick or Treat! Then we started walking the other way from our house and there were kids everywhere! Between the darkness and the masks and costumes, she was scared to death. We hit one more house, and our mailbox to pick up the mail, and headed back home. She ate a lollipop while she watched us hand out candy. After eating a KitKat and becoming very chocolaty, I dipped her in the tub and Hubby put her down for bed.

We had several friends over. Our house tends to be a gathering spot on Halloween for some of our friends who wouldn’t see many Trick or Treater’s at their own houses. So, they handed out candy while we were out with Courtney. It was such a warm night, we had LOTS of kids. The past few years we have felt the numbers dwindling, but the warm weather brought them out in droves. It started to naturally quiet down about 8:15pm so we shut off the lights and brought in the pumpkins. Then we pulled out the cards and played a game of Phase 10.

Overall, it was a very Happy Halloween here, I hope it was for you too!