This year was totally different trick or treating with Coral. First of all, Andrew wasn't with us. He is at a trade show in Vegas all week long, so no candy for him. Secondly, Coral actually understood what was going on this year (after the first couple of houses) and LOVED it. Sorry ya'll, I don't have any pictures of Coral trick or treating since I left my camera at home. However Andrew took some of her in her costume a few weeks ago so i'll try to get them up on the blog soonish.
Since Andrew wasn't going to be around for Halloween, I decided I would make the treck down to my parents house. Both of my parents were thrilled that they got to take one of their little grand-babies out to get some candy. Coral woke up yesterday morning and the first thing she did was grab her costume and ask to put it on. What did she dress up as you ask? She was a monkey again! I thought before going out and buying her a new costume, I would bust out her costume from last year to see if it fit. Sure enough it fit her better this year then it did last year. Awesome.
We got Coral ready at about 5:00pm and headed out to get some candy. As most of you know, my parents recently moved, so the first place we went was our old house. The people that bought their house really wanted to meet Coral, so dad promised we would bring her by. Well, when we got there, they had gotten Coral a bucket FULL of candy. You should have seen her eyes. Of course she wanted to eat it right away so I told her to pick one thing. She looked in the bucket and picked a crunchie bar. Not the typical bite size chocoate bar that you usually get when you go trick or treating. Oh no, this was a full adult size crunchie bar.
Now that she was full of chocolate (who needs face paint? The brown chocolate matched perfectly with her costume) we decided to hit up some houses of people that we know/are related to. Coral is usually shy around new people, but she had no problem going right in to peoples houses for some candy. And when I say go right in, I mean go right in. There was no waiting outside the door. As soon as the door opened she ran into the house and looked for the candy. Now since the first house we went to gave her a whole bucket full of candy, she assumed that at EVERY house she would get the entire bowl full of candy. So instead of taking one piece of candy, she would grab the whole bowl and try to walk away.
We tried to get her to say thank-you at every house, but while we were there she was so quiet, focusing only on the candy. However as soon as we left, she had some comment to make...after each house. Sometimes she would say "BYE OMA" (Oma is what she calls my grandma, but she usually just assumes that every old lady is a Oma), or would say "scary" if they had spooky decorations.
Once it started to rain we headed to my grandparents house to hang out with the rest of the family and help hand out candy. Coral had to see who was at the door every time someone was there, and checked out all the different costumes.
We really missed Andrew and was sad he couldn't be there wish us. It was such a fun night and I can only imagine how much more fun it will be next year when Coral is a little older (although maybe not as fun for me...I get to eat most of Corals candy this year...next year she might not be so generous). And yes, it took the little monkey a looong time to fall asleep last night after all that sugar.
Enjoy your candy everyone!
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