Halloweeeeeeeen!

Halloween was so much fun this year. We had a little trouble talking LD into putting on his costume, though. It was a total no go for his school party the Friday before Halloween, but I used my super special mom powers** to get him into it for a trial run on Sunday.

**I bribed him with candy corn.

Also on Sunday, we carved his pumpkin. He said that he wanted a scary pumpkin, not a happy pumpkin, so D drew up a couple of designs and Liam chose the one he wanted. Then it was time to get our hands dirty.

Don't be fooled. He's actually scooping the seeds out of the bowl and putting them back into the pumpkin.

Sunday trial run, eating his hard-won candy corn:

Scary pumpkin, not a happy pumpkin:

By Monday, Halloween, he was totally on to my game and even the promise of candy couldn't get him into his costume. So I pulled out the big guns: I told him he could ride his bike if he put on his costume.

In the costume, but still not sure about this whole thing:

Then he got on the bike, hit the first house, and the whole thing fell into place for him.

He walked up to doors on his own, knocked, said "Trick or Treat," "thank you," and "Happy Halloween" at every house before running back to his bike to pedal to the next. We thought we would hit maybe 2 or 3 houses if we were lucky (and never thought he would actually say anything to strangers), but he completely surprised us.

Also surprising: he doesn't want to eat the candy he got. He only wants candy corn.