trick or treat

It was Rebecca's first year trick or treating.

This is the costume Rachel wore at her age, too.  Rebecca wore a costume last year, but we just pushed her around in the stroller.  This year Daddy took the two girls around just in our cul de sac and Rebecca got some candy of her own. 

Then he brought her back home to me, and she "helped" me pass out candy while Daddy and Rachel went around the rest of the neighborhood.

Helping meant wandering around the driveway and sidewalk, carrying fistfuls of candy, saying "Bye bye" to everyone who came and got candy, and trying to follow them when they left.   So I'd run up and get the bowl, divvy up the candy to the visitors, put the bowl down, and chase Rebecca, over and over.  Thankfully we didn't have as many trick or treaters this year as we usually do, so it didn't involve as much chasing as it may have in other years.

Once she found out you could eat this stuff, she kept trying to take candy out of the big bowl and put it in her mouth, wrapper and all.

I finally let her have a dum dum sucker--her first.  She didn't know what to do with it at first, but as soon as she got one taste, she was hooked.

I made her sit down on the step to eat it, and every time she stood up, I'd take the sucker away and tell her she needed to sit down with it.  So she'd scoot her little bottom backward back on the step so I'd give it back to her.

Rachel had fun and is excited about all of the candy, of course.

At school yesterday Rachel got to dress up, too, and had a halloween parade and party.  She decided to be Little Red Riding Hood at school and Snow White for trick or treating.

So the red cape I made served a dual purpose this year.  And with as much as this girl plays dress up, I'm sure it will get lots more use, too. 

And now I can't believe it's NOVEMBER!!!