After dinner this evening all of the youngsters got dressed and went trick-or-treating around Susan's house. Halloween in Hawaii is so fun! The girls were able to wear their princess dresses without coats and we were in shorts. It even sprinkled a little and we still weren't cold. Lots of people sat outside on their porches to hand out candy. It's so different from the chilly winter-coat Halloweens in the Midwest that I experienced as a kid.
The biggest surprise of the night for us was how much Maddie enjoyed trick-or-treating. She insisted upon walking around all by herself and she dragged her pumpkin bag on the ground as she went, refusing to let us carry her or even her bag. The bag is absolutely filthy now because of the dragging, but she really enjoyed herself. She followed Claire and Ethan up to as many doors as she could, hollering at the people who lived there (hopefully she was hollering, "Trick or Treat!" and not, "Give me some candy!" but I really couldn't decipher it for sure). She finally tuckered out when we were about 3/4 of the way through and asked to be carried, but she did much more than I had expected.
When we got back to the house everyone got to pick a few pieces of candy to eat. Mike & Ike's then Sweet Tarts for Claire; Maddie had a 3 Musketeers bar. Claire was very intersted in learning the names of all of the candy. She'd ask us the name of each piece and then repeat it. I'm pretty sure she's storing all of that knowledge for the next time we're in the supermarket check-out line. They bounced off of the walls for a little while and then were coaxed into bed. It was a very busy day.
2 comments:
Those are two pretty, pretty princesses!! Looks like you guys are having a blast on your vacation. Hawaii looks absolutely beautiful! Enjoy the rest of your trip.
So did the kids get cans of Spam in their bags too? Very beautiful little princesses.
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