Happy Halloween!

A little over a week late. Seriously you really can't complain, it's pretty par for the course for me. :) This was the first year Alice actually went Trick-or-Treating and MAN did she have a blast! We went over to Nicole and Paul's house so we could go out with them, and later we ate dinner together. Alice nearly jumped out of her skin when she realized that we could go from door to door with a little bag and say "Trick-or-Treat" and complete strangers would give us candy. 9 times out of 10 she said those words long before we ever got to the door. One observation I made was that my BARELY two year old had MUCH better manners than 90% of the kids (and a good portion of the adults too) we saw - and for the most part she did it unprompted.

She had a hard time going up the stairs carrying a bag bogged down with candy (she refused to let anyone else carry it) so I usually went up with her which meant people had to wait for the two of us to come up and down the narrow stairs (most of the homes we went to were all by the same builder so they had the same stairs) together. There were even a few ADULTS who pushed their way in front of Alice and I just so they could get to the door with their babies sooner. Needless to say I was quite happy when some of the homeowners refused to give them candy until Alice got hers because afterall she was there first. It wasn't the Halloween I remember when I was a kid (is it really Halloween when it's sunny and a high of 72*F?), but it was a good night that we ended in Paul and Nicole's backyard roasting S'mores.