Halloween Recap

Our Halloween festivities began last Friday the 22nd.  Julia had a "harvest party" (Halloween party but thou must not use the term Halloween) at school.  That was also the day she was puking.  Yeah, we should have kept her home, but you do realize my Halloween fervor, right?  She was not very into it, but she posed for a few ladybug pictures.  Out of the all the things at the Halloween party (errrr...harvest party), she enjoyed when we took off her warm ladybug costume and let her play with balloons in the disco room. 

Fast forward to this past Friday (the 29th).  The community center down the street was having a Halloween celebration.  Since it was going to be inside and we had learned that the ladybug costume was too HOT for inside, we put her in her pumpkin costume from last year.  She was feeling better, but the place was crowded and overwhelming.  So we were there about 10 minutes.  She did end up with at least 12 granola bars and some fruit leather, so she got some healthy treats. 

On Saturday night I thought we might to a different community event, but we just ended up hanging out at home. 

On Sunday since we were going to trick or treat, we thought the ladybug costume would be more appropriate because she'd be outside & it's thicker.  Now this is the first Halloween in our new house.  I bought about 5 bags of candy in the past few weeks, hubby was going to stay behind (Sounders game) and hand out candy.  I was going to take Julia with her friend and my friends to go trick or treating. 

Remember how I posted a few weeks ago that I've been running in the Stepford neighborhood?  The entrance to the neighborhood is about 1/3 mile away.  It's flat terrain there.  The houses are really close together.  They really seemed to decorate well.  Well, the place was packed.  Cars lined EVERY street.  There were people everywhere.  There's about 10 kids on every doorstep at any one time.  It was flipping nuts.  Our old neighborhood was pretty active, and yeah some people shuttled kids in.  But in the Stepford neighborhood, it was 20x worse!  There were so many people that it really wasn't fun.  People were expecting tons of people, so they gave out the icky candy too. 

We headed out there fairly quickly and went back into my neighborhood.  MUCH better candy, less crowded, a whole lot nicer (except all of those pesky stairs given the challenging terrain).  I called hubby, and he said there were ZERO trick or treaters.  How sad! 

After our friends left, we went to about 5 more houses.  Yummy candy, full size candy bars + mini bars at the same house, and one lady gave Julia her own real pumpkin.  (Guess who took the pumpkin to bed with her?)

I'm kinda bummed that no one came to our house.  :(  This neighborhood has a whole different feel than our old neighborhood.  Our street doesn't seem all that friendly, which sucks. 

Julia had a great time and enjoyed the experience!  Plus, with all of our practice in the past week with the harvest party and the community event, she was really comfortable in costume tonight.