Halloween with the Honeys

Emma, Charlotte, and Cristina have been counting down the days until Halloween.  Charlotte was especially excited about Halloween and has been counting down for two weeks.  This morning I told her to get dressed for school and she said, "I'm not going to school.  It's a holiday. It's Halloween."  She seriously could not believe I was making her go to school on such a sacred holiday. 

When it was finally time to go out, the girls were so excited.  Emma is a pro at this point and is all about hitting as many houses as possible.  Charlotte does a pretty good job of keeping up with Emma. Cristina was excited about the candy, but having a little bit of a time keeping up with her big sisters.  After going up and down one street, Brian and I parted ways with the girls.  He took the big ones to hit a few more streets and I took the little ones to head back to our friends' house. 

Cristina decided that she wanted to go to a few more houses, so we made a few stops on our way to our friends' house.  She was super excited about knocking on the doors - the only problem is she was knocking so softly that there was no way anyone was going to hear her.  We were in this one cul de sac where two guys were outside in costume.  So, Cristina says, "Let's go see the scary man."  She gets some candy from the scary man and then sees the other guy in costume (a Tin Man) and says, "Let's go to the kingdom." So, we walk over and she gets some candy.  Then, we go to a house on the other side of the scary man.  As we are leaving that house, she says, "Let's go see the scary man."  So, we go back to that house and she gets more candy.  Then, she says, "Let's go back to the kingdom."  She gets more candy.  Then, she goes to the house next door to the Tin Man and gets some candy.  We are walking back to the street and she insists on going back to the "kingdom" again. Luckily, the Tin Man was a good sport and didn't mind that the same kid hit his cauldron of candy three times!

Meanwhile, Emma and Charlotte were cramming their buckets with candy on another street.  When I was talking about it with Charlotte later, she says, "the worst part about it was my hands and feet.  My hand was just falling off and my feet were so tired.  It was just the worst."  On a side note, Charlotte was trick or treating in her bare feet.  She was wearing this long princess dress and I didn't notice that she had taken her shoes off.  So, yes, that was my child walking bare foot in the cold tonight!  I can only imagine what people were thinking.

Here are pictures of the girls from tonight. Emma was a witch, but decided she didn't want to wear her hat, which honestly is what makes the costume, but whatever.  Charlotte was Belle, Cristina was Cinderella, and Ella was an elephant.