Halloween

Halloween was full of excitement. All six of us were home for the evening! This is a rare event. The twins set up outside with pizza, sodas, movies, and of course a hugh tub of candy to wait for trick-or-treaters. They had two of their friends helping (?!?) them. They rented Ring Two and Sleepy Hollow, but I don’t think they actually watched the movies because they found it more exciting to entertain the poor unsuspecting trick-or-treaters. It was about 9:00 when the girls came inside because the candy was gone. I should say that the candy not horded by the girls for later! Actually they did very well at not eating more candy than they gave out.

Our oldest took our youngest trick-or-treating as part of a group with our neighbors. She brought home about half a pillowcase worth of candy! Now our tub is once again full, ugh. Of course, there is a message on the bag of candy stating who the candy belongs to and that permission is required prior to eating any. I have no doubt that the tone is a very threatening one. I see my future now from about 3:30 on, because the older girls will take and hide a good portion of the candy. When the 12 year old sees that candy has disappeared she is going to throw a royal fit (her title is “Queen Audrey” around the house), and the older girls will look at her with extremely innocent expressions and tell her that they didn’t eat it, so they didn’t have to ask her permission to remove the candy. Life can be so rough for the youngest child!

We did have the cutest trick-or-treater last night. She is just shy of being 2 years old and was dressed like a cowgirl. She was wonderful! It brought back memories of my oldest when she was that age because she too was a cowgirl. My oldest would say cowboy-girl and would wear her boot with everything. It was a fight to take them off! I’m not saying that the child is stubborn beyond belief, however…….I’m sure that the 2 year old visiting us last night cooperates with her parents and causes no parental distress!

Overall, it was fun to sit back and watch the interaction of the all the girls with the multi-culture of trick-or-treaters from the range of ages to known friends to strangers. Hmmm, even though we had to bring them back to task a few times, maybe the girls were listening as their father and I were attempting to teach manners and so on!