Halloween 2009

The princesses were in rare form this evening, with Cinderella in the lead most of the evening, tiara or no. And no slippers, just boots.

Sleeping Beauty was often at the end of the greeting party, but did push past Cinderella to knock on a door midway through the evening, then shy away when someone opened it.
The graveyard infront of the house was little appreciated again this year, mainly on account of our street being mostly empty. Only us and the folks across the street even had lights on, let alone decorations and they go all out. Fog machine, lights, scary music. I just write silly things on foam.
This morning we went to a retirement community to trick or treat, and some of them had candy. Morgan needed most of that time to warm up to the idea of geriatrics with treats, Eliza took it in stride and if she was bothered, never showed it.
Morgan was also hands on with the pumpkin this year, reaching in before I had a chance to get spooning.

The house was quiet tonight, maybe 20 kids in total, the last groups clearly driven over, as indicated by the awaiting SUV in the street. we walked the girls up the block and didn't see a single house giving out candy, just one woman running out to hand both girls a full size snickers. It was delicious.
We loaded the girls in the car and went to another neighborhood to let them do the knocking on doors. Kind of a bummer/blessing the block is so quiet.

Don't forget the clocks and the smoke detector batteries!