This year we attended Memorial Road church of Christs' annual Trunk-or-Treat, which the kids had a really good time at. We went with Karter and the kids really enjoyed it. Leta really liked looking at the different trunks and how they were decorated. Luke was interested in getting candy ;)
Then a couple of days later, we loaded up our trio and met Karter and Brandon and Shanna near Lake Arcadia for their annual Storybook Forrest. Leta, especially, loved it. The kids walk along a wooded trail and as they walk along there are scenes from classic nursery rhymes and fairy tales with very short summaries of each story. Leta had to read each story and examine each scene and ask about 100 "why" questions at each stop. We spent the evening telling Luke to slow down, wait up and stay with us! Leta's two favorite scenes were the one from Rapunzel (Rapunzel was up in a tower with her hair extending all the way to the ground and was throwing the candy down to the kids) and Hansel and Gretel. For Hansel and Gretel they had a few different scenes all from that one story and one of them was when the witch was pushed into the oven and the scene showed just her legs sticking out from an old pot bellied stove. Leta thought this was just fantastic and asked over and over to go back and see the witch again. We also discovered that by hanging out longer at each station usually resulted in her receiving more than one piece of candy. Maybe if Luke would've realized that we wouldn't have had such a problem with him wanting to forge ahead so quickly! After our walk through the woods, the kids listened to several stories read aloud and got to roast s'mores with Kyle. I was able to chase Max, who has zero survival skills or instincts that tell him staying close to mom in unfamiliar situations is best.
Then on Halloween night the kids and I met the Hayes' (noticing a trend here?) at Home Run Sliders for slider sized Burgers before heading to a nearby neighborhood (chimney hill) for Trick-Or-Treating. We put Max in the stroller and gave him a sucker. 1 child happy and taken care of. Then Luke and Karter raced to the houses and spent a great deal of time waiting for Leta ;) Karter does not enjoy scary looking things or costumes really, so the decorated houses and houses with people in scary costumes were not his favorite and he took quite a bit of coaxing to go to those houses. He kept saying, "I don't like Halloween!" Leta, on the other hand was his polar opposite. She loved all the decorations and costumes and wanted to see them all, touch them all and take it all in. Her favorite costume was a boy in a "big bad wolf" mask. She requested to see him many times. She even hit the jackpot and had one man empty the rest of his bowl into her bucket and she thought that was the greatest ever. 3 tired children on sugar highs went to bed that night. Also, while out trick-or-treating Leta asked when "kissmiss" (Christmas) was. She is READY!
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