Trick or Treat!

As soon as we walked in the door from seeing Harper Street all decked out for Halloween, Jesse started crying and saying "Halloween...that way" (as he pointed to the door).  He really wanted to go back where all the pumpkins were. 

Thankfully, the fun was not over.  After greeting a number of his friends at our door and handing out some candy, we set out to do some trick-or-treating ourselves.  Our building did trick-or-treat from 4:30-6:30 this evening. Everyone who had candy to give out was supposed to place a ghost on their door so that kids would know to knock.  Jesse had a blast looking for more ghosts and riding the elevator up through all 10 floors.  He kept saying "more doors" and "more ghosts" and "more candy".  I didn't even know he knew what candy was, but he sure was excited about it. 

Here he is getting dressed up in his robot costume.  He really seemed to like walking around the building in it, and only asked to take it off a few times.  He was easily persuaded to keep it on when we told him he had to wear it to keep trick-or-treating.  We taught him to say "trick or treat", but he refused to say it for most people, and when he did say it, it was in a barely audible whisper.  I think he was totally weirded out by the whole thing (in a good way, though, because he seemed very intrigued by it), and had no idea why we were going to strangers' doors and getting things from them.  When it was time to move on to the next door, he would just stand and stare at the previous door, as if he was really thinking and trying to figure out what in the world we were doing.  I don't think he smiled the whole time, but he was not upset at all, just very pensive.

Here he is getting dressed before heading out.  This was the hardest part, and we unfortunately lost both arms in the process.  It would have been asking for too much patience to heat up the glue gun again.

 

As soon as we left our door, Jesse noticed the candy we had left outside, and he went for it, only to land in it.  He was a bit upset, and I thought we had lost any hope of getting him to walk around the building in the big, bulky box, but he recovered very quickly.

 



 First stop: his friend Alyse's house.  They were out trick-or-treating, too, so they left the candy outside.

Here he is at his friend Lilah's apartment.

And here's a video of Jesse talking about Halloween and candy.  His moodiness was not because he wanted out of the stroller, but because he wanted to stay in it, so he could leave and go see more Halloween things.  Funny boy.