Tonight I had the fun of watching my daughter turn from a greedy hoarder into an enthusiastic giver. As our massive bowl of candy dwindled in the face of the hundreds of children charging our house, I began picking through Cora's trick-or-treating pumpkin bag for some more fodder (i.e. the pieces I don't really like). As I'd drop them in the bowl, about every other piece Cora would say "I like that" and put it back in her pumpkin. That was fine and at least the hoards were slowing. I left her in charge of distribution to the stragglers in order to go get Hannah warmed up and ready for bed, but I could hear her voice downstairs as she kept excitedly coming into the house to get more candy from her bag until it was depleted as well. "I need more candy! There's more kids!" Once she was in charge of the giving, she discovered it's much more fun to give than to hoard all for yourself. It was a good lesson for me, considering before the kids came I had already pulled all the Twix and Butterfingers out of the bowl and now have them hoarded in my top cupboard.
A very enthusiastic Tinkerbell and dragon.
The best friends: two fairies and a dragon.
Visiting the botanical gardens.
They belonged in a fairytale!
And later for trick-or-treating. These guys are inseparable.
What did you get?
The fairy godmother. And her monkey? Which story is that again?
Look at that face Hannah has. Candy even tastes great with the wrapper on. Speaking of yummy wrappers, at a bonfire birthday party last night, I let a fussy Hannah gnaw on my cupcake wrapper, thinking she'd like the taste but would only get a few crumbs. Next thing I knew, the wrapper was only a tiny tattered remnant. So much for only crumbs.
Cora expressed a mixture of both fear and fascination with the costumed characters coming to our door.