We had a good neighborhood trick-or-treat outing this year. I took the boys around and was only feeling up to doing a few houses, so we visited about eight neighbors on our block and a couple of blocks south. AJ is still getting the hang of how Halloween works, so he insisted on pre-filling his bucket and Davey's bucket with candy from our house. I kept trying to explain that the idea is to take an empty bucket that you fill up as you go, but this did not make sense to him when there was prefectly good candy here for the pre-filling. When we went to ring doorbells, AJ and Davey would get their piece of candy and then thought they were supposed to give one in return and would pick one out of their bucket to offer the person who had answered the door at their house. I thought this idea of a candy exchange was pretty charming and much better than the gimme gimme attitude that can sometimes come with trick-or-treating, so who knows--maybe we will adopt this as our own little custom of candy sharing.
Davey was willing to put on his Halloween costume for trick-or-treating, which surprised me. I think it helped that we showed him his Thomas the Tank Engine candy bucket right when it was time for trick-or-treat. He was so excited about Thomas that he didn't protest when we tried to put his costume on. He dutifully trudged around the neighborhood with the huge Thomas bucket bumping along the sidewalk beside him, too heavy with the loot that AJ pre-filled in it to lift it off the ground.
AJ had a hard time keeping his hands out of his Halloween bucket. Joe estimated that AJ ate about 15 pieces of chocolate, which may explain why he had a hard time sleeping tht night. Davey was also a sneaky one with the candy and was caught twice trying to eat mini candy bars still in their wrappers.
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