Halloween 2006

Halloween was fun. We first had an activity at Emily's preschool. We've gone to it the past 3 years. It's a "Walk through the Countryside." There are different stations to visit on your walk through the "countryside." They got to jump over haystacks, forage for acorn "money", grind wheat and visit the baker for a baked goodie.
Inside the kids played bite the apple piece off the string, pin the face on the jack-o-lantern and listened to a story about the naughty hobgoblin. I liked doing this because it's Halloween on a much gentler level for little kids who could really do without the strong images associated with Halloween. Adam and Emily look forward to it each year.
After, Adam and Emily went out with dad this year. It was quite freezing this year and so we had only a handful of trick-or-treaters. Michael said Adam and Emily ran from house to house to stay warm. He also said that he saw many kids being driven to clusters of houses with lights on and then drive on to the next cluster.
Belle and I handed out candy. She was pretty tired after the preschool event and I don't think she would have liked the whole be in the dark outside freezing to get candy her mommy wouldn't let her eat anyway.