On actual Halloween night we were planning on taking Sawyer trick-or-treating around the block, but weren't quite sure how the whole thing was going to work. We wanted to both take him, but then did we leave our light off at home and look like bahumbugs who didn't want to hand out candy? Or did we leave a bowl of candy on our doorstep and hope the first kid that came along didn't dump the whole thing into his bag and call it a night? And then when we did get home and actually handed out candy, how much do you hand out? One piece? Two? A handful? Ahhh! Obviously we were newbies at both taking a child trick-or-treating as well as having a place where trick-or-treaters actually came to your door. Well, in the end our dilemma was solved when we were invited to go over to a friends house from church.
*Sigh of relief*
It was us, the couple whose house it was and two other couples with six kids between us and ALL of them boys! We ate chili and cornbread and visited before deciding it was finally time for the kids to don their costumes and head out before it go too dark. Sawyer wasn't too interested in wearing his costume when he had got it for him earlier in the month, but he wore it just fine that night, hood on and all. I'm thinking that seeing all the other kids dressing up in costume made it okay in his mind. He carried his pumpkin bucket and tried to grasp the concept that he was supposed to walk up to the doors of houses where strangers live, say his plzz (a.k.a please) and they would put candy into his bucket. Finally around the fourth house he had it down.
Below is his dino costume in all it's glory, tail and all.
At one of the houses in the neighborhood as soon as the door opened Sawyer darted inside! He was long gone before I could even grab onto his dino tail and keep him from entering. Luckily, the house turned out to be someone I knew. Brittany Lewis, who I went to high school with, had answered the door. Finally after retrieving both Sawyer and his candy bucket we were back on our way again and with a full size Snickers bar that Brittany had given him. I don't know if it was the size of the candy or what, but at the dismay of Matt (who really wanted to eat it) Sawyer refused to let that thing out of his little dino hands. He would not put it in his bucket so instead of letting it melt in his hand, I finally gave him a few bites of his favorite thing ever a.k.a. "choklet" as we went to a few more houses.
Here's a photo of all the boys before we headed out. So cute!! At the top left there is Braden who is dressed as a goat (yes, a goat. I like that kid already!), next to him is Micah the Tiger, then Jesse the Pirate, next row down there's Sawyer the dino, Ben the firefighter and Cody the frog.
Waiting patiently for the first candy of the night!
It was a really fun Halloween night and much more fun spending it with new friends, friends for both for Matt and I and LOTS of little friends for Sawyer.
2 comments:
If that group of boys came to my door, I would give them all my candy! What cutie pies :). Thankfully we haven't had to deal with the problem of what to do with trick or treaters while we're gone. No one trick or treats at our apartment complex.
FUN! Love his costume and love all the little ones he got to hang with on Halloween - too darn cute!
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