Happy Halloween! For the first time, we completed a full circuit of the neighborhood - even through some spitting rain. Both boys did great at knocking on doors and ringing doorbells. About half of Z's candy collection ended up getting placed into O's bag; I'm not sure if he was self-selecting the candy he didn't want or if he didn't want his bag getting too heavy. Anyway, Z was even a minor celebrity: at school today, they had a parade of costumed kids, and many other parents (not us; Z tends to get concerned when he sees us at school if it isn't the end of the school day) had attended -- several adults and kids alike from the neighborhood recognized him during the evening trick or treating. A little first grade girl who apparently sits near him at lunch even helped her mom open the door at one house, she was very cute in recognizing and asking about him.
Both the boys' costumes were excellent, and I thought Meh's Mary Poppins outfit was great (even though she was bummed she couldn't find an appropriate umbrella). My own Bert (the Mary Poppins one, not Sesame Street) was basically a vest and a derby, and with the jacket on, mildly indistinguishable from being dressed as a parent taking his kids trick or treating), but it was great fun all around.
And Z's mind was mildly blown when we went to our backyard-adjacent neighbors' house: as we learned a few weeks ago, Z's kindergarten teacher's parents live there -- and his teacher grew up there and went to his same elementary school! When we got to their door and knocked, who should answer but Ms. H! Meh and O were invited in for a quick visit to our-house- through-the-looking-glass (aka same construction/layout but without some of the more "interesting" modifications subsequent owners have made to our house) while Z elected to continue to practice his "trick or treating!" (yes, with the '-ing') on the porch. We wrapped up the night back at our house, where each boy was entitled to one piece of candy before bath time, and before the older trick-or-treaters started making their own rounds of the neighborhood.
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