Clara celebrated her first Halloween today, sadly with little fan fare. I can't say I am a huge fan of taking a baby trick or treating just for the sake of doing it. I know how annoyed I get when someone carries their baby that can't walk or talk to my door and asks for candy... we both know your kid who can barely eat cheerios is not going to consume the candy.
Even so, I put Clara in her costume and we visited our neighbors who basically just wanted us to come say hi. Mike went to the Lions game today and came home just in time for the trick or treaters. Growing up he seemed to really enjoy getting full sized candy bars so for whatever reason he feels it is important that he passes them out. We had about 350 kids this year and all were quite impressed with the candy spread.
Mike and I have different opinions about good candy. He enjoys his chocolate candy bars (snickers, kit kats, etc) while I have always been a fan of chewy/fruity candy (airheads, laffy taffy) Well last year we just gave out full size candy bars, one to each kid and that was that. This year we had a candy store of options available to the kids, and just for fun we threw in the local favorite Better Made chips in TWO flavors. When kids came up they got their choice of one of whatever they would like. Believe it or not at least 75 kids choose a bag of chips! We love checking out all the kids in their costumes (and Mike likes making comments to the teens who don't even bother to dress up!)Next year I look forward to stepping up the trick or treating and maybe taking Clara out and doing our whole street!
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