Halloween 2007

We got started right at 5:30. Every year at 5:30 it is dark. Not this year, not with daylight savings being messed up. So we were the first ones out. A bunch of houses were not ready, but many of them were. We even managed to arrive as one good sport was just pulling in to his driveway. Big C spent a great deal of time in the wagon just hanging out. Not really getting in to the whole thing. Normally taking a ride in the wagon is the whole point of the outing, the free candy was lost on him.Monkey and his friend BigE had been prepped in school and were more than ready. BigE was happy to show Big C the ropes and he was able to do about one house for every two that the older ones got done.

There were many happy choruses of "we're the candy guys" from Monkey in place of the traditional "trick or treat". There was also a lot of "umm, can I have some Smarties too please, they are my favorite". Grandma should be proud. Or maybe he just remembers the Smarties getting stolen by Grandma in years past and he knew that he needed extra. He actually did a remarkable amount of negotiating right on the door steps. Some guy gave him playdoh, but not blue playdoh. Oh Monkey spoke up, you can bet on it. They were trading between BigE, the neighbour and Monkey. It went on for at least 3 solid minutes.

He figured out that if he told people that he was also collecting for his brother, they would give him twice as much. At one point BigE was even trying to send Monkey in his place since Monkey was so good at it. At one point Big C took a rest at some random person's picnic table. Hey, it was sitting on the front lawn and he is always told that he has to sit in order to eat. Putting two and two together, he was hoping to get some candy in!

They had a great night and we packed it in by about 7.