Well, we had a wonderful Halloween.
Around 4pm, we headed outside to the back yard. We’ve got a few nice trees there that have beautiful yellow and gold leaves on them. Xander noticed that a lot of the leaves were falling off of them because it’s been a pretty windy day.
So I decided it was time to play in the leaves. We took them both out and they had a wondeful time running through all the leaves that had piled up on the ground. We all ran around in them for about half and hour.
Then we came back inside and had some popcorn and watched some race before getting the kids into costume.
Mira was in her skeleton costume and Xander was dressed as a blue pikmin.
We headed out a little after 6pm to take the kids Trick-or-Treating. We expected Mira to last for about 4 house like Xander did at that age. Then Kate would take her back to the house and I’d finish up the rest of the houses on our street with Xander.
Well, she saw how much fun Xander was having and took right to it herself. They both had a great time.
Mira loved getting to do what her brother was doing. She’s stand right beside him holding her bag open and waiting for the person at the door to drop her some candy in the bag. After a few houses, she’d worked up to reaching for the candy herself.
Xander had a great time as well. He loved helping his sister, and he loved telling people he was a pikmin.
After we made it all the way around and back to the house, we sat on the porch and handed out candy to the few trick-or-treaters that were left at that point. I think next year, we’ll do that some first and then head out to collect our own. Xander really enjoys handing out the candy as much as getting it.
