Living Life with the Rogers Family: Trick or Treat!

Monday, November 1, 2010

Trick or Treat!

Yesterday was our first Halloween experience in Cranford, NJ and our little boy LOVED it!!!!!!

We didn't realize it, but Halloween here is a whole afternoon/evening affair. Trick or treaters started coming before 2:00 in the afternoon-YIKES! Our neighbors warned us that we should expect around 300 visitors and boy, they were correct. I bought 400 pieces of candy in bulk and we used at least 3/4ths of the candy. While Aiden napped, Chris worked on painting the baby's room while I passed out candy to the first of our trick or treaters. Once, Aiden woke up and had a snack, we quickly got him dressed in his outfit and ready to go! A few of our family members saw Aiden's opinion of his costume...everytime he saw it, he would run away and say "No, No, No". So we have been preparing him for Halloween and even did a practice run at home on Saturday night letting him have a small box of Nerds for fully putting on his costume. I was surprised on Sunday, after just a small battle, how he decided his costume was pretty neat and wore it the WHOLE time we were trick or treating.

While we were waiting for Chris to clean up from painting, Aiden helped me pass out treats. He loved greeting our guests and putting candy into their bags:

Then, we headed out for Aiden's first experience with trick or treating. We just hit our block, but with a toddler who wanted to walk on his own, it took us quite awhile! Here is Daddy and Aiden as we start to head out:

Mommy and Aiden walking between houses:

Trick or Treat!:

Yeah! Aiden was so happy to get some candy:) He loved getting the candy so much. He would put his bucket down in front of other trick or treaters on the sidewalk and sign "More" to them hoping they would give them more. Let's just say that some houses gave us more than our share because Aiden was just too cute in his "trick or treating"!