Trick or Treat!

We trick or treated with our friends Naomi, Allie and Kelsey. We hit the neighborhood where our previous and most favoritist daycare provider Brooke lives...and the Stovriggs and Sinhas too! Trick or Treat was marked to start at 5p and go until 8p. Well, we were ready at 5p sharp and the sun was still shining and it was hard to find some porches with their lights on! Apparently, it's not very cool to go right at 5p. But our theory is that all of the other children were sitting inside waiting to spot the first TOTers to give the go ahead to hit the streets. We cleared about 10 or so houses and the kids were pleased and had already managed to eat about 30 pieces of candy and suck on about 5 suckers each. Mama could hear the dentist growling and the teeth rotting out of her kids' heads!

Tessa had a long week of indecision regarding her attire for the evening as most young ladies her age do. She was slated to be a horse after having been muscle-chested Spidey for school. But, nevertheless, she was feeling more like a kitty that evening. So, we were a cat AGAIN this year. Her buddy Allie similarly wasn't feeling her adorable bumble bee costume her mom had gotten her and insisted on wearing last year's Piglet. Independence. Such a wonderful thing.

Nate settled on a reprise of his old fireman costume for school since I wouldn't let him be the coveted Ninja. For his school parade you have to carry a book with your character in it. This parade is so academically called Book-o-Ween parade. And, while I would have been able to easily find a book about ninjas, I was more concerned about Nate becoming or enacting his role as a ninja while marching in this parade. We made a deal that he could be a Ninja for TOT. So he wore a Ninja costume for which he begged and his mother got 75% off at the drugstore and still overpaid for the cheap piece of nylon called a costume. I think my pantyhose over his face would have given nearly the same effect. He was thrilled to pieces as evidenced by his karate chop-ninja-esque poses for the camera! I don't think Ninjas typically carry a light saber, but Nate the Ninja thought it looked cool and was even more awesome when he tied it to his pant leg.

Miss Kelsey didn't make a peep as per her usual. She was the most adorable and pleasant little strawberry ever!