Trick-or-Treat

What a beautiful Fall weekend, from start to finish the sky was clear, the air was New England crisp and the Fall leaves provided the most beautiful background. Just perfect and as usual, very busy.

Friday was busy at work and I rushed home a bit early to get Reagan from school so we could go trick-or-treating at a somewhat normal hour (at least normal for a 1 year old). On the way home I had to stop and buy beer and wine (we like to make sure our favorite adult neighbors get some of their own treats on their Halloween travels). As usual it was rush, rush, rush. I wanted to leave work at 3:30 and of course got stuck and then at the last minute a conference call was scheduled for 4:30 (just my luck on a Halloween Friday), which I joined from my car. I finally got to Roo around 5 and immediately got her in the car and home for dinner. Kerry didn't have to work, but man was he busy all day- carving pumpkins and getting out the decorations so we at least looked like we wanted kids to stop by.

Roo ate, got dressed and we hit the trick-or-treat trail around 6. She didn't have any idea what was going on, but boy did she not want to let go of her pumpkin treat bag or the battery operated pumpkin that we gave her to hold. We put her on her tricycle (thanks Auntie Court) and off we went. We had delusions of hitting every house, but quickly realized that A) we left the candy on our front porch and it would be gone quickly and B) Reagan was not going to last long. We settled on visiting the houses we knew would want to see Roo dressed as Roo.

Reagan had a great time and wanted to go inside every house we stopped at. She would look at us with this expression like, "wait, aren't we going to stay a while?" We started at The Kennedys and went all the way up the street to Fifi's house (Fifi is a little terrier that we often see walking in the neighborhood). Fifi was dressed as a bee and Reagan had the best time giving her little pets. The night ended with a very tired little girl, but one that was thrilled to see all the other kids out and about. I would say that our first trick-or treating adventure as a family was a success. I think from now on we will take turns. :)