Our First Trick-or-Treat!

Oh, we had a good (busy!) time on Halloween! It's such a fun holiday. Even though Maelin was very sick (she did have Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease again and this time was worse than last time because she had so many sores inside her mouth, she couldn't eat or drink a thing for 3 days...) she still had a great time. (Maelin was the Strawberry Fairy, by the way...)

We went to Daddy's work for a Trick or Treat Parade on Thursday afternoon before we went to the doctor and he was able to show her off there and she had great fun running around his office and messing everything up. She got her first official piece of candy there: a dum-dum sucker which she made into quite a mess. (who knew they were so sticky???)

Then on Friday (Halloween), Kat and Daddy took Maelin down to Boulder so Grandma Lea could play with her at her work (I was at work and Kat was off so she baby-sat while Maelin was still sick and we didn't have to take her to daycare.) Maelin had fun down there but was a bit freaked out, I was told.

Finally, it was time for Trick or Treating! We got Mae all dressed up and took her outside for a few pictures (see below) and we were on our way! Mae was so excited...she was running down the street with her Elmo bucket and made right for our sweet neighbor's house where she was waiting with all sorts of special treats for Maelin. Maelin went right inside the house...she did that with 3 other houses too. She didn't understand why we knocked and people came to the door but then we didn't go inside! Weird...

Anyway, we hit up about 10 houses which was just the right amount for an 18 month old who didn't really understand what was going on. She got a jawbreaker in a wrapper that she was pretty excited about...would NOT let us take it away from her.

Then we all went home (Kat and Jeff came with us) and Maelin played with her candy for a while and we had pizza and wine and passed out candy to the other trick-or-treaters. We had a really nice night!

p.s. Maelin is feeling much better now. Today was the first day that she was able to eat again...whew!