Henry's First Halloween

Although Henry didn't have a clue what was going on, I had to take him Trick or Treating.  I convinced Andrew to give up a flying lesson so that we could experience this as a family.  We went out around 6:30 because I didn't want Henry to get too cold and we were going to hand out candy ourselves.  As unbelievable as it is, not many people are ready for Trick or Treaters at 6:30, but our neighbors were good sports.  The other challenge was that no one had their light on, so one neighbor wasn't even planning on giving out candy.  We told him we just wanted to say hi and that Henry couldn't eat the candy anyway.  It was so much fun going around, even though it was just the five houses closest to us.  We got to show off our little Charlie Brown and get some yummy treats in the process.  Yay!  When you have a kid you get to do all the fun kid stuff you've always wanted to do, but before you had a kid people just thought you were weird.  

These are some of the pictures we took of the evening.

 Andrew took a picture of the pumpkin he carved for Henry the weekend before.  The front is a glider, but the back has clouds and when you put it in front of a solid surface it makes a really cool image of the sky.

I'm getting Henry ready for his big trip to the neighbors.  I used my black eyeliner to put Charlie Brown's little strands of hair on his forehead.

Ready to go!

We stopped at our neighbors' house to the west first, but she wasn't there.  We had to get a picture of the first house though.  Later on we went back and she loaded us up on candy.

The neighbor kid a few doors down gave us our first bit of candy.  He was dressed as a dead kid, charming, right?

Steffany, our neighbor to the east wanted a little sugar from Henry before she gave up the good stuff.  We got cool candy that turned our tongues different colors.  Our candy couldn't compete. 

I can't get enough of my little Charlie Brown.  As you can tell, he's just as excited as I am.

Before we finished up for the night we took some photos of Charlie Brown in his Bumbo with the pumpkin.  It was such a beautiful evening.

He's so smart, he figured out that there is a bunch of good stuff in that bag, but then we realized he just wanted to put the bag in his mouth (like everything else these days).  Next year will be a whole different story.