Trick or Treat!

This year for Halloween I got to take Marina trick or treating. We met up with Madi and Noah. We all had dinner at their house, then the kids all got into their costumes. Noah was a pirate and Madi was dressed as Giselle from Enchanted. Marina was happy to show off her Rapunzel costume. I also put make up on her which made her very happy.

We went to a nearby neighborhood to start. There were plenty of kids out even though the sun hadn't set yet, but many of them were well decorated. A woman dressed as a witch was in front of her house, Marina was a bit hesitant to approach her but was happy with the candy she got. At another house, there were sound effects and spider webs. The kids tripped a motion activated fog machine and came running back. Jenn had to walk them to the door. As we walked around, we met many other kids. Marina met her newest "best friend," a girl dressed as an angel. Marina nearly filled her pumpkin, including a few full size candy bars. She was especially pleased with a large bag of Skittles. She spent a while talking about her costume to them people who gave it to her.

We wanted to go to another neighborhood where she knew someone. So we went there. We ended up walking quite a ways but we saw some neat houses. One had lots of decorations and a shark handing out tubs of cotton candy. Marina was thrilled! Another house had a large spider web with lots of little spiders all over it and a ghost that lowered after the kids were on the porch. All three of them just stared at it, afraid to try and walk past it. We also went to a house with talking witch lights along the stairs up to the door. There Marina got a large bag of Teddy Grahams. By the time we were finished she had more candy than would fit in her pumpkin.

At home we had pumpkin pie (she had asked for it for Halloween) and she had a little candy. It took a bit to get her into bed. It had been an exciting night!