They loved trick-or-treating, but even more so loved the chocolate. We gave them a little candy each day until the chocolate was gone. They didn't really care for the other candies, but oh the chocolate. Ursula would smile a glowing grin, nod her head and say most emphatically "I want chocolate. I want chocolate."
Now they still pretend they are trick-or-treating with their daddy, knocking on the bedroom door, opening it and yelling "Trick-or-treat in their lovely sing-songy voices. They have also moved onto a different kind of chocolate...Hot Chocolate. Yum. This is one of their mommy's favorites too so I understand the obsession. We have it every morning now for breakfast.
The weekend before Halloween we also had a huge Harvest Party Potluck. I think around fifty or so people joined us...yikes. The house was packed and cozy. We also had a fire in the backyard with s'mores. There were so many children running around that some of the adults looked a little perplexed...yet nothing went astray. The cubs were excited and overwhelmed. At one point Freya crawled into bed surrounded by a room full of jumping yelling children, and sat there in a bit of a daze. All she could muster was a quiet "No shoes on the bed" refrain that went mostly unheaded. At the end of the night Ursula did have a melt-down...just too tired poor Bear, but that was the extent of it. Pretty good for that many people and that many children packed into one house together all evening. It was festive and chaotic...just like our family. Ah, I love this time of year.
