Tonight was the first Halloween that these two will remember... and it was a good one. We started off at one of our neighbors houses showing off their costumes, then we all got grilled cheese sandwiches at Dee's (where Nana and Papa used to take everyone after trick or treating), and we ended the night at Jack and Sam's neighborhood filling their bags with yummy treats from nice neighbors, it was a really fun night.
The gang.
Anxious anticipation at the very first door knocked at.
Picking what was going to go in your bag was the hardest part...
And, I loved over hearing the conversation between these two buddies. They chatted the whole time and gave themselves pep talks when they saw older kids in scary costumes...
Noah: there are some yucky costumes over there.
Jack: Yeah, but they are just pretend.
Noah: Yeah, I know. And we're brave.
Jack: Yeah, we are. But if we saw real monsters, we would hurt them.
Later on... we were asked to go up to a door with some really creepy decorations. We tried to avoid the house, but the neighbor was standing in his yard inviting us to walk up. We didn't feel that we could turn the neighbor down because we didn't want to offend him so we went... but we gave the boys a super quick pep talk on how everything is just pretend, and that they are brave and scary guys are always afraid of the good guys because they know the good guys are always bigger and stronger. We told them to just say "BOO!" to anything they thought was scary... so the whole way up to the door we heard Noah saying, "BOO! BOO! BOO!... BOO!" He was so proud of himself for scaring all the bad guys :)
I love my brave boys.
