Happy Halloween!

The beginning of the end of trying to keep the hood up...

Our neighbor gave Andrew a Ninja Mr. Potato head kit to decorate a pumpkin, so Keith and Andrew worked on that between answering the door.

Andrew was a little monkey this year. We've been trying to get him to warm up to his costume for about 2 months and he always said - "No Monkey!" But last night, thanks to some early trick-or-treaters, Andrew got the concept and was ready to wear his costume, kind of. We could not keep the hood up, which is where the monkey face was, but we tried and hope you can see how cute the hood is in some of the pictures. Andrew can say trick-or-treat very clearly, but after he would ring the doorbell, he would just stand there in awe of the big bowls of candy near his face and say nothing. Occasionally we got him to say thank you. But as soon as we would get to the end of a driveway he would say, "More tweats?!" And we would take him to the next house where he would say "trick-or-treat and Happy Hawooween" at the end of their driveway, but never to the people at the door. *sigh*

We only went to about 10 houses on our street and then came home to hand out all of our candy and microwave popcorn, which I over bought. If anyone wants some mini bags of popcorn, I've got two boxes to share! Anyway, we let Andrew eat a lollipop from his loot and then our doorbell started ringing. We're not sure, but we think Andrew was almost more excited about the trick-or-treaters coming to our house than he was about actually trick-or-treating. Everytime the doorbell would ring, he would run to the door and yell, "More people! More people!" And after they would go, he would ask, "Where da people go?" We finally had to turn off the lights so we could get him to bed. Now my new fear is that he thinks every time you ring a doorbell, you get candy...

P.S. Thank you Aunt Audra, Uncle Dave, Ben and Cate for my CUTE treat bag!