Trick -or- Treat & Neighborhood Halloween Party

Troy was a lion. My favorite is the back. His tail would sway as he walked. Trick or treating was actually really fun with Troy. I was so excited to go trick-or-treating again! We only went to about 10 houses, but Troy loved getting candy. We went to Grandma Allsop's first so that he would get family answering the door on the first try. We quickly discovered that he would not put the candy in the bag once he picked it up. So we had to swipe away the candy right before the next house so that he would have a free hand. His left hand permanently held a sucker. Troy was not very excited about chocolate (mommy was..) and so he would hover his hand over the bowl until he could find a sucker or at least candy he recognized. If there was only chocolate to choose from he would stare at them until I picked one up for him. He would wave bye bye and hold onto his candy tightly until he knew there was another bowl of candy to pick from. It was hard at first but he got into a rhythm. I could have done this for probably an hour before wanting to go home, but it was pretty cold. It was a perfect first trick-or-treat for Troy!

I lost my camera for a time and so I'm just getting these one here, but Troy attended a neighborhood halloween party a couple weeks ago.

He walked in a "parade of costumes" as they danced to halloween music. Troy didn't walk much but he loved the ghostly suckers. The first thing we did was listen to a halloween story by my neighbor Jessica, followed by putting your hand in boxes of gross mixtures (olives and sphagetti for eyes and brains.) Then some songs, suckers, and the parade. The final activity was to decorate pumpkins with candy and a glue gun.

Troy tried to eat all the candy before I put it on the pumpkin.

I am converted to the glue gun for projects. Pumpkins and ginger bread houses will forever now be done with glue guns.

The food they had at this party was amazing. Caramel popcorn, homemade white chocolate pretzels, ice cream cones that had cookies frosted onto them, and fruit mixes. The ladies who did this must have spent some time, I wish I would have taken a picture of the ice cream cones. It was an awesome 1st neighborhood halloween party!