Trick or Treat!

They were both super excited. Maya lasted about 4 houses and then decided she was ready to go home. She said she was feeling shy. So Ben took her home and Alex and I continued around our little circle in the neighborhood. Lots of people loved Alex's costume - a big thank you to cousin Brendan for giving him that helmet last summer!

After just the small loop in our neighborhood Alex decided he was ready to go home too. He was just as excited about handing out candy as he was about getting it!

And of course they both wanted to dump out, look at and sort their candy. And maybe eat some too.

Some of our neighbors had a good variety of treats this year. One house always makes popcorn balls (and yes I let my kids eat them even though they are homemade and not sterile and sealed), one house gave out snack size bags of chips, snack size graham crackers and our next door neighbor makes little treat bags for the kids that she knows.

We went through right away and Alex picked out all the things with red dye in them and we had gotten some "safe" treats to have on hand for him to trade them in for. I got the Annie's gummie fruit snacks and some Yummy Earth suckers. Seriously, if you've never had one of those suckers you have got to try them, they are so good! Maya would like to trade some of her candy for them too!

They had a blast handing out candy for the rest of the night.