halloween

It's Halloween!  This year for Halloween Bennett and Winston are dressing up as a monkey and a banana.  Bennett was afraid of his costume even though we had it out for a couple of weeks.  So, we improvised and bought him all brown clothing and a monkey hat.  Here are the boys before they transform.

My monkey and his banana.

 

Bennett really enjoyed trick-o-treating.  He was not sure what he was supposed to do at first.  The first house we went to in our neighborhood was the Murphy's.  They live across the street.  He thought we were supposed to go in.

By the second and third house he picked up on the fact that we just take candy and leave.  He was practically running for the front door after that.  

There is one house on our street that goes all out when it comes to Halloween decorations.  They have a lot of different props out complete with smoke and sound effects.  Bennett was fascinated.

We stayed out for an hour and then went home for an hour to give out candy.  I think Bennett would have kept going.  I was surprised how much he enjoyed handing out candy.  He would run up to the door when we told him kids were coming.  Then he would grab a candy bar and drop it into the kids buckets.  

Some of the costumes he found scary so he would back away candy in hand from the kids and confuse them.

He was really good about not eating the candy himself.  He started to say "Happy Halloween! Trick-o-treat" to the kids approaching the door by the end of the night.  I am looking forward to next year!  Happy Halloween.