Trick-or-the-Treat

When Billy was two we took him trick-or-treating in East Helena down one street until we found Bubby's house.  Then it was game over and he quickly ran downstairs to play with toys.  Not much has changed, I suppose.  Instead of saying trick-or-the-treat, he says trick-or-treat, though.  Alexa simply holds out her hand and says "treat!"  Like 2-year-old Billy, she would rather play than collect candy.  At each house she'd try to sneak through the door saying "play, play" and then throw a tantrum when we left.  Two birthday parties and two nights of Halloween fun were a little too much for our little miss.

Billy, however, couldn't get enough Halloween!  On Saturday, we went down to Three Forks to Trunk-or-Treat with Tiffany and Zak.

On Halloween we went trick-or-treating with Alex, Allison, and Brandon.  Billy's favorite house was "Vote for Bob's".  Alexa stopped crying briefly to figure out why eerie noises were coming from a pumpkin and Billy, well to hear him tell it is much more exciting.  But Bob (Brastrup) had a candy bowl with a hand that came down on yours when you went to take candy.  Billy thought it tried to get him because he said "Give me all of your candy" instead of "trick or treat".  Thank goodness Bob knows our kids are polite, because Billy always dishes out the flack to Bob before Bob can do it first!  To everyone else, of course, he said "thank you" and "have a happy/great/even fabulous Halloween". 

Alexa also wanted to go home with a little kid dressed as Elmo.  I guess to her the little kiddo was about as real as Elmo could be.  And back at the house (or during our dinner break, anyway) Billy handed out candy.  When traffic slowed, he and his sister stood out on the sidewalk recruiting kids to come get candy.  I think next year he should dress up as a salesman, for sure.