Trick-or-Treat!

I figured that since Thanksgiving is right around the corner I'd better wrap up Halloween first!  You saw our family picture I'm sure but here is how Halloween itself went.

This year Megan was a dragon and Owen was a bumble bee.  I was able to find Owen's costume at a garage sale this summer while still on maternity leave and it was a perfect fit for him and his little round head! Several weeks before Halloween I asked Megan what she wanted to be and there was no hesitation as she consistently answered "dinosaur" each and every time.  Well, I searched everywhere online and craigslist but could not find a dinosaur costume I liked.  I asked her why she wanted to be a dinosaur and she said, "because I want a tail and I want to scare people!"  Somehow my mom and I were able to convince Megan that a dragon would be a good idea and I remembered I saw some online at Old Navy.  When Megan and I went there to try on the costume she was so excited and just kept saying "I have a tail! I have a tail!"  The costume was a keeper and I really only paid $9 for it after the sales!  Plus, it is super warm for trick-or-treating and hopefully Owen will be as excited to wear it in two years as Megan was this year!

John was bummed that he had to work on Halloween this year since it fell on a Wednesday of all days.  With that said, my parents were more than happy to give me a hand taking the kids out - we especially wanted to visit Daddy at work and then go to Grandma and Grandpa Lewis!  

Here they are!  Ready to go see Daddy!!!

 

Daddy was so surprised to see us!!  And he loved showing off his little bumble bee and dragon!

 

 

We had to keep moving since the clock was ticking and off to Grandma and Grandpa Lewis's house it was! We were happy to see that cousin Alexa was there - she was going trick-or-treating with Auntie Dawn since her mommy didn't feel well.  I was happy to get a super cute cousin picture.  I said that Owen should have been a handsome prince or brave knight and we would have had all the characters for a perfect princess story with a beautiful princess and fire breathing dragon!!

 

We didn't stay too long there either since we wanted to get home in time for trick-or-treating in our townhouse neighborhood.  I think we got back home around 7:15 and were out trick-or-treating around 7:30.  It was actually a fairly comfortable night and we loaded Megan up in the stroller and off we went.  My dad never really took us trick-or-treating when we were kids so he was happy to push the stroller and watch  Megan have some fun.

One of the best parts about living where we do is that all the houses are so close together so it makes trick-or-treating so easy.  It would have been a little easier if Megan would have walked between the houses since almost half of them had lights on, but she instead wanted to go back in the stroller after almost every house!  

She did such a good job.  Most of the places she said "Trick-or-Treat" when prompted but towards the end she just defaulted to "Happy Halloween".  Either way, she still filled up her little pumpkin bucket about 3/4 of the way to the top!  It is funny how different people are in how much candy they give out.  I think a kid Megan's age would have a hard time since at one house she might get up to 8 fun sized candy bars but the next place if she would happen to accidentally grab two bite size candies they would tell her to watch it!  But she still had a blast and said thank you to everyone - even all the people that thought our cute dragon was a little boy!