True Life: My Kid Hates Trick-or-Treating

Last year we tagged along with our friends while they trick-or-treated with their children.  Grace was about 4 months old and slept in her stroller while we froze our butts off walking around the cul de sac.

Halloween 2010

I remember thinking it would be so much fun this year because she’d be walking and talking and could appreciate all of the hoopla.

I was wrong.

Sure she walks and sort of talks (if you count dada, ball and tickle tickle as high forms of communication) but she was not interested in the festivities.

Hmm…what’s in here?

Dad, can we go already?!?

This is the best you’re going to get out of me.

A quick happy moment with mom at the office :)

We started out having a chili potluck at our friends home and Grace couldn’t be bothered with eating when there were so many kids and toys and a giant Golden Retriever around!  I think she ate a half a roll and drank a cup of juice.  Dinner of champions!

Not long after dinner, we hit the streets with an adorable (albeit fiesty) ladybug in tow.

Try as I might,  I couldn’t keep her moving forward with the crowd on the sidewalk (future revolutionary??) or even get her to sit still for 3 seconds to snap a good photo of her in costume.

Talk to the booty because I’m too busy to look at you.

Not gonna look!

She was mostly interested in running toward the street and tackling the Halloween displays.  A couple of times another one of the kids coached Grace into walking forward on the sidewalk a bit.  Thank God for positive peer pressure because Mom and Dad obviously don’t understand the longings of a one year old.

After a few melt downs, Grace decided to check out her loot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She grabbed a Kit Kat bar which seemed harmless enough.

Until she bit through the packaging and started eating it…complete with the wrapper!

I generally monitor all of her food and restrict sweets, but I caved.  The look of pure delight on her face when the chocolate hit her tongue was priceless.  I may have helped her finish it off to prevent too much of a sugar rush ;)

Post Kit Kat delirium slowed her down long enough for me to get a front shot.  Notice the chocolate on her lip!

Grace’s favorite part of the night, by far, was jumping on her friend’s bed.  You would have thought she was at a carnival!

All in all, it was fun to be outside, spend time with good friends and capture some real-life memories.  Who needs those perfectly scripted Hallmark holidays anyway!