Friendly ghosts? No, Scarys!

Mia stitched matching friendly ghosts outfits for C & Q.

Did I already tell this story? Our neighbor has decorated for halloween, and everytime we pull in the driveway Cora points at her tree and announces, "Scary!!!"

When I put Cora in her Halloween costume, she also exclaimed, "Scary!"

These two friendly ghosts don't look so scary to me.

We started out the trick-or-treat evening at our friend Alicia's house for some chili and hot dogs. Afterwards, the girls and I ran back home to get Landon and hit the houses where we were expected in our neighborhood (Cheri & Matt's, etc.), then headed back to Old Village. On our way into Old Village, we decided that we couldn't head to Pitt without stopping at (newlyweds) Justin & Stacy's house, so we ran by there. Somehow, we ended up leaving Quinn with the newlyweds, then headed with Cora to Pitt. 

 By far, the best  place I could have imagined to Trick-or-Treat. It took Cora about 4 houses to figure out what the gig was about. She looked around, saw all of these kids running eagerly up to a house, getting a treat, then running to the next house. After that, Cora was all in. She would have nothing to do with our help, never accepted our offer for a lift or a hand up and down stairs, refused to let us carry some of her candy to lighten her load, and independently marched up to nice ladies on porches.

When I said, "What do you say?" she would exclaim, "PLEASE!!!!" (good, but not hardly in the spirit of the evening).

It wasn't until we were on our way home that Cora realized there was candy in those packages.

She hasn't asked for much candy since.

 These pics were taken after 9PM. Quinn is ALWAYS like this. Seriously, I bet I could list every single time the child has cried!

 She is obsessed with the candy bucket

Two weekends after halloween, godmother Joy came to visit.

When it was time for the adventure of taking Joy back to the airport, Cora insisted on dressing "Scary!".

My little ghost looked pretty running through the airport, arms spread wide like an airplane, in mid-November.