Halloween

For a couple of weeks before Halloween, I had been buying candy and adding it to a very large black bucket in our living room. It is not a room we are in very often and thus, the bucket had largely had gone unnoticed. A couple days before Halloween, however, I come upon Alexander with a huge smile, pulling the very large pail of candy across the room. It was just a few minutes before he had dumped it out on the floor and was laughing and throwing candy and having a great time.

The next day, he found the smaller bucket of candy, but alas must have determined that was not as much fun as once again, he found and dumped the entire large pail of candy. Despite the large pile of candy on the floor, he even had to practically climb into the pail to make sure he had every last one of the pieces out and in the pile. He had a great time once again and I was just relieved he didn't realize how much he would enjoy what was inside the wrappers!




Finally, the big day came. Alexander got dressed up in his monkey costume and headed outside to greet the trick-or-treaters. He really got into the spirit and insisted on handing out all the candy himself. (He did very well and only once did he try to take candy out of a child's bag rather than put candy in!)