Top two photos by Craig.
Anna loved being outside trick-or-treating tonight. She hasn't been outside in the dark that much so that in itself was a novelty (I'm disappointed that we likely won't be here for all of the Christmas lights on the houses as I think she'd really love to see that this year).
We started down the driveway with her holding on to her big piece of cheese that Grandma & Jake & Sam made for her but when she realized that "someone put candy in trick-or-treating bucket" she wanted to hold the bucket instead. Funny that she didn't even know what "candy" was, but she felt pretty good about having some in her bucket!
We went to three neighbors houses and then I walked her down to Claire & James' house (a pretty good hike for little toddler legs). She was excited about it all. When we got back to our house we sat in the driveway and passed out candy for a bit and she literally ran circles around me until she got dizzy and fell down. And she hadn't even had any candy yet!
She was repeating the following phrases for most of the night:
"be [a] mouse for Halloween"
"someone put candy in trick-or-treating bucket"
"Happy Halloween"
"[the] park is spooky at night"
When we were outside she definitely needed her mouse ears on (if they fell off she would stop in her tracks and say "mouse ears fell off" until they were replaced on her head). Once we came back inside she wanted the mouse costume off. So, she was admiring her loot in her diaper-only. She got about ten pieces of candy and we'll spread them out over the next couple of days.
