On Friday night, we finally carved our pumpkin we had gotten at the pumpkin patch. Somehow this turned into completely a project of my own. Ramy's not much on the pumpkin carving, and Rebecca thought the guts were gross. She quickly abandoned that part of the project!
She did help me draw his face design though, and I think he turned out pretty cute!
After we got her dressed, we went over to Ramy's mom's house so that Grandma could see Rebecca in her costume. Then we went over to the carnival they were having at a shopping center nearby, and Rebecca got to see a lot of other kids and trick or treat at the stores around there. The best part was that the Chinese restaurant was giving out fortune cookies instead of candy.
Next, we went to one of the neighborhoods near our house that is flat and has lots of houses. We set off walking, tricking and treating. Rebecca kept thinking that since she was a princess, her carriage should show up. When it didn't, she decided that Ramy could stand in. So he had to carry her between houses! Although she didn't really like the idea of holding her frog bag up for people to drop candy in, she was quite brave about marching up to the door, ringing the bell, and saying "trick or treat." I think the ringing of the doorbell was actually more fun for her than the candy part, and she was disappointed when she didn't get to ring the bell before the candy-giver came out.
We weren't quite done with that neighborhood, and Ramy and I had already decided that we were going to go to another neighborhood close by to do some more. However, Rebecca was over Halloween at that point and told us she wanted to "go home to mama's house." We tried to stop at a couple more houses, but she would say, "No, I wanna go home. Let's go to mama's house." We stopped at Panera Bread to eat dinner, so our princess explored all the stuff in her bag. She tasted some Nerds candy and promptly spit them into a napkin, then did the same with a Twix bar, exclaiming with both, "I don't like that candy." She has been much more enamored of the little bags of pretzels she got at a couple of places.
We didn't get a single trick-or-treater at our house, so we're left with a big Costco-sized bag of candy bars. Heaven help! I'm taking some to my office to put out for my clients and we'll send the rest to the Philippines with our box of goodies for our friends.
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