Halloween

On Halloween this year, kids everywhere were very excited about both dressing up in their costumes and getting lots and lots of candy. But not our kids. Nope. Rachel didn't really know she was even wearing a costume, which was the case for Matthew last year. This year, he knew he was wearing something strange and he didn't like it.  We did manage to get him into it, but not without some tears.  And as for the candy, well, neither one of them could have cared less.

So we started out the day by going for a Halloween visit to Daddy's office.  One woman there was dressed up as a witch, complete with a green face and wart on her nose, and Matthew really wasn't too sure of that.  He looked like a tiger, but really he was much more akin to a kitten, so he held on tight to Daddy when she was around.

A tiger and his cars.

In his cage.

He eventually warmed up to the whole costume thing.  Briefly.

Instead of going from house to house that evening, doing the trick or treating thing, we headed over to the new house to hand out some candy, let Matthew see what this Halloween thing is all about and maybe get to meet some of our new neighbours.  We handed out the candy and Matthew thought it was quite exciting that we had so many people coming to our door, but wasn't so sure about their attire.  And we met a few neighbours over some hot chocolate.  Then we headed out to Auntie Lu's and Uncle D's for a quick Halloween visit and a photo:

Rachel the pea pod and Matthew the tiger.