Happy Ween!

I think Asher is still a bit young to really understand Trick-or-Treating and Halloween, but he's old enough to follow instructions on what to say and do to get candy! The Children's Museum has special Halloween activities for the kids so we headed over there once again this year to check it out.

The weather was beautiful (not like last year when we nearly froze!). They gave you a bag when you arrived, which was good since I completely forgot to get Asher something to put all the candy in! He loves the bag and still likes to carry it around (probably on the off chance that someone will drop some candy into it!) Once I explained how it worked, he was like a man on a mission. He spotted the candy booths throughout the musuem, (not even wanting to stop to play in the train room!!!!) and went from booth to booth holding his bag open and saying some form of "treat please". I kept having to remind him to say Thank You, which he usually ended up doing when he was about 10 feet away from the booth. Once we hit all the candy booths inside we headed outside. As you can see in the photos, he had a blast - face painting, games, characters in costumes, train rides, etc.

I think the museum gave him some good practice for the real deal the next day. I figured that we would do about 5-7 houses on our street before he would get tired and want to be carried or just get bored. Boy was I wrong. No only did he do our entire street - both sides- but then went out for round two with Paul and did the street behind us - both sides! Never once asking to be carried.


He was so friendly with everyone walking up and down the street, saying hi and Happy Ween! One house we went had a little girl dressed like a fairy giving out the candy, Asher said "Thank you princess" and went on his way - too cute! There was one house that had a man dressed as a skeleton sitting in a chair handing out candy. We got about 10 feet away and Asher froze....literally froze. He didn't blink, move, say anything. I tried to tell him that it was ok, just a costume and to remember the skeleton we hung on our door earlier in the day. He was having none of it so I finally pulled him away from the house and he was fine. It was so odd, he didn't cry or grab my leg, he just froze and stared at the man. The man tried to assure him it was ok too, by saying hello and trying to offer the candy, but I guess this did not fit in with Asher's idea of what was supposed to be on this magical night where mommy & daddy took him house to house to get candy.

Anyway, hope you had a Happy Ween and enjoy the photos!