Halloween

Rachel was too little to do anything for Halloween last year.  This year, she was a pumpkin. 
Classic cuteness. 

Rachel and Meggan went downtown to Parenting Place at 2:30pm as usual for Monday afternoon playgroup.  This is where we've met most of our friends.  All the kiddies and parents walked to the Munckkin Masquerade on Pearl Street.  Businesses all have 'treat stops' and tents are out with stickers, games and entertainment.  It's a zoo full of little kids, music and entertainment.  Jason joined in after school.
Meggan, by the way, was supposed to be a Scarecrow.  However, her hat kept blowing off and Rachel kept pulling off all her straw bits... so her costume was a bit of a failure.  Jason was a retro basketball player at school and had fun showing off his Globetrotter skills with some other staff during the school day.

Sorry I don't know how to rotate these videos. 
Rachel kept dropping her chocolate bar, then stopping to pick it up and take off her hood.  Whenever there was music around, Rachel wanted to stop and dance.

After dinner we decided to head out to Trick or Treat.  Our street is a friendly residential street, but there are only 1-2 other kids on our street.  Our next door neighbor gave Rachel a small toy pumpkin, and 2 other families gave out candy.  Nobody else on the street participated or had candy, which was a huge shock and disappointment to Meggan.  Apparently here, if you want to take part you turn on your light and have a pumpkin outside, and if not, kids don't bother with your house.  We only had a few kids come, so we have loads of leftover candy we don't know what to do with.  Oh well.  Maybe next year we'll find a more child-friendly street to really enjoy the real thing.

We really enjoyed watching Rachel work so hard to walk down the street.  She really is entertaining these days!

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