We walk up to the first house and ring the doorbell, although it was a while before we made it to the door as we had to inspect every halloween decoration along the way. When the lady answers, Jake just walks on in to their house. I quickly grab him and the lady puts candy in his pumpkin. He's a little confused, but okay, he got something in his pumpkin. Next house, we ring the doorbell and this time the kids get to pick up their own candy. He holds it a bit and I tell him to put it in his pumpkin, he does and we say thank you and leave. By the third or fourth house they had it down and Abby was saying thank you before people even opened their doors. We only went to the houses on our immediate block (maybe 7 houses), but I think it took us an hour or so just to do those houses.
We did have a little accident about half way through our trick or treat time. Jake was trying to run with his pumpkin to catch up to Abby and dad ahead, but tripped and fell. He fell hard and busted his lip. Tears were coming down fast, but our neighbor was right behind us and said come trick or treat and her house. She ran ahead and went inside to get the candy for the kids. Her daughter shut the door just as we got there and I heard her mother say open that back up for the twins! But her daughter wanted them to have the "full" experience by knocking on the door too. That all helped I guess, because the tears had stopped and Jake was ready to go to more houses.
By the end of our trip, Abby was getting tired and started to drag her pumpkin instead of carry it. We went back inside and headed to the kitchen for a quick drink. The kids immediately wanted to sit down and go through their loot in their pumpkins. I did let them eat a few fruit chews and then we had to take their pumpkins away. The little monsters were trying to eat suckers and tootsie rolls through the wrappers!
Ready to go!
This girl is on a mission.
Abby's dragging her pumpkin, tired from the walk and candy!
Hmmm, what do we have here? Tasty!
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