We all decided to go with a family Alice in Wonderland theme for Halloween this year.
Brayden came back home from tick-or-treating and said, "My arms are hurting because people are giving me double candy just because of my costume. Only the elderly said it was cool." Despite his impressive trick-or-treating yield, he downed virtually all of his loot that first night.
Julia had an scarier trick-or-treating adventure. Carlos and I stayed back to hand out candy while Matt went with the Mason family to take the kids around the neighborhood. About 45 minutes into the trick-or-treating I got a phone call from Matt asking if Julia had come back. Learning that she hadn't, he suggested she was probably up ahead with the older kids and he went check. He called back distressed that she was not with them either. He said they were 2 streets over and he was going to leave the other kids with the Mason's so that he could go look for her. He asked people along the way if they had seen her and even handed out his cell phone number so they could call if they saw her. She ended up showing up about 5 minutes later at the house. She said that she was scared with someone dressed up in a clown costume and didn't want to go to a certain house. She said that the clown was following her. She looked scared when she got home and said she was walking with strangers. I asked her how she knew where our street was and she said she had remembered how many streets over they had gone. She was worried it wasn't the right street because she wasn't finding our house. When she got back she was fine with not going trick or treating anymore that night.
Blake was reminiscing about the Trunk-or-Treat a day after Halloween. Out of the blue he said, "One day we go trick-or-treating on cars, not houses."
