Last night was Halloween so the boys and I set out to locate some candy. Mom stayed home to run the party. Mom did get Charles in to his costume (a pumpkin) which was quite a feat. Charles was quite insistent on going out with Big Brother to trick or treat which I found somewhat surprising.
The pickings in the neighborhood weren’t very good. Only about a fourth of the houses were participating. We had to look for both lights and Halloween decorations to find the houses that were accepting. After hitting the two or three houses on our street we caught up with a large crew of neighborhood kids and harvested along with them.
Charles was a good trooper. He walked almost the entire way, which would have been about 5 or 6 blocks, quite a distance for the little guy. I tried to have Charles go up with Corwin to do the “trick or treat” but Corwin insisted on running ahead as fast as he could. This meant that Corwin would be arriving at the next house about the time I was getting Charles moving away from the previous door. Despite repeated promptings, Charles never said a word to anyone except me the entire time.
Near the end, I told Corwin that it was time to head back to the. Corwin didn’t want to because he hadn’t gotten much of a haul. It was not much compared to previous years. Normally Corwin would fill one of those plastic pumpkins but this time he had barely covered the bottom. Charles seemed to just enjoy being out with Big Brother.
Fortunately for Charles, he got quite the haul from daycare. I took in some goodies for the class but apparently several other parents contributed as well. Charles came home with two lunch bags filled primarily with candy. I had tried to avoid bringing in candy because kids get plenty of it already (I brought skeletons straws, eyeball super balls, etc.). The only remaining problem is that Charles always wants exactly the same candy as Corwin and their candy stashes are not identical. This occasionally requires some sleight of hand to make Charles happy.
Despite being tired, Corwin refused to go to bed while the party was still going on so he ended up falling asleep in a chair. I washed his makeup off before sending him up but he slept in the hair gel. After a shower in the morning he was looking mostly human again. I did have to chastise him, though, with regard to the fact that Halloween candy is not a proper choice for a breakfast food.