Oh, I’m pooped… Emma is

Oh, I’m pooped… Emma is thrilled with this whole trick or treat experience. We started of our afternoon (after a big rest for Mommy) by Carl coming to get us. He had to wait while we bundled everyone, especially the baby, up for the trek outdoors. Yes this is Halloween in Canada, where your costume must fit over your winter coat. Emma had on her woolly tights, two pairs of socks, a turtleneck, a polar fleece pullover with hood, and polar fleece pants. Then I put on her red tellytubby suit and tellytubby shoes. Over that went her coat, unzipped. And mitts.
then with a bit of finagling, Carl dumped us at the local radio station where they were having some events. So it was a little less than I expected and they didn’t have at least one thing the ad in the paper said they did, but hey, it was Halloween and *everyone* was handing out free treats so there. Carl had left me with my mother’s car, so we made out way back to her place, with stops at the library and a friend’s house on the way/. The friends gave Addison a CD for his birthday. She said she was cleaning out her collection.
By the time we got to Mom’s place, Ron was there and supper was being made. We were energized, so we decided to work her neighbourhood before we ate. Hey, we lived in this area for a couple months last year, so we knew people.
The first house we went to, they took pictures. Heh. By the time we got to the fourth or fifth house, I had to go back and empty Emma’ little Monsters Inc bucket, as it was full. After that, one of the houses we went to gave Emma a large treat bag with a little bit of treats, so we filled that up too.
The kids had big bags, of course. Word has it that one of Sarah’s friend brought home a pillowcase and a half of loot. We only went around the block, and not to every house as it was suppertime, so some people weren’t even home yet.
Emma was a doll, of course. By the end of it, all we had to do was open the screen door and she would bang on it. “Treeeeeeet!” she’d holler, and say thank you when she got it. Some places she was happy to just say Hi and start to leave if they took too long. One house she made it practically in to their living room. “Can I have my baby back please?”
She was so excited to get back to Mam’s. We knocked on her door too. She gave the kids special treat bags she’d done up. Then we had supper and birthday cake. (Happy Birthday Addison!)
I noticed when we were leaving that Emma had a special treat (or trick maybe) for me in her diaper. Whee! I got her all ready to go again, and she didn’t want to put her costume back on, so we nixed that idea. The girls didn’t mind as they had lots of treats to keep them happy. Addison has his nose buried in a gaming magazine, so who knows what he’s thinking.
I have no idea how many kids came to our doors while we were gone, but I don; think it was much. I left a bowl of treats (not too many) and it didn’t look like it was touched. After we got home, only four kids came to the door, none of them I recognized.
I wanted to go around to four houses near me, but Emma wasn’t up for it. Maybe tomorrow, just so they can see how cute she was. Maybe I’ll bring them a piece of birthday cake or two, since we’ll have a whole ‘nuther cake, it being Meaghan’s birthday and all.
Tomorrow I’ll send in a bucket of leftover chocolate bars and the candy (gum, caramels) Emma can’t eat. Lord knows I don’t need to eat it.