Prick or Pete

Halloween in scheduled here in Iowa, and then rescheduled as not to conflict with any college football games, as the case may be. We ended up trick or treating the on Friday the 29th this year. Since Lucy is still pretty little and we don't know a ton of people in our neighborhood, we went to the downtown toddler trick or treat on Main Street at 10am. All the shops opened and had candy for the kids, allowing me to get a glimpse of all the Main St. stores while Lucy got her candy.

Here's my little Tinkerbell. It's a costume that Grandma sent a while ago (not intended for Halloween, I don't think) that Lucy wanted to wear. Not a surprise, really, pretty much everything is Tink right now. The felt on her shoes is actually sewn right to the sneakers to keep it on.
Our partners in crime were Jon & Mariel's kids, friend Gabe and baby Nico, Sarah & Jane's son Silas, and Ayden, who Sarah watches during the day. Sarah had to wait for Ayden to get to her house so Mariel and I had three two-year-olds and a stroller to wrestle for the first forty minutes or so. It was not a crowd to be reasoned with.
Apparently Gabe's shark costume was from last year. His mom & dad put it on him and held him up to the mirror. It terrified him to see his face poking out of the shark's mouth. This year he was much braver. Note also at this point Silas' orange shirt and hat "costume." His mom worked for days to sew a Super Why suit, a labor of love that he abjectly refused to wear. Maybe next year.

One part of this trick or treating (prick or pete as Lucy said) that did not elude my Tink was the fact that the candy in the bucket was hers. She was seen to try and take more candy out of the trick or treat bins, wrestle candy out of the hands of the storekeepers, and steal from other kids buckets. I'm prettu sure that the lollypop on the ground here was hers, but not 100%.

What a great looking crowd!