Trick or Treating

Avalon went trick or treating for the first time this year. We took her out last year, but she mostly just ran around. When we started out, I was holding Avalon, knocking on the door and saying trick or treat for her, but Avalon was saying thank you when we asked her to. Then as she started to get candy in her pumpkin, she got really excited. So she started to knock on the doors by herself, and then back away from the door and wait. She still wasn't saying trick or treat, so we decided to ask her to "roar" instead since she was a white tiger and she was happy to do that. By the end of the night, Avalon was knocking on the door, saying trick or treat and thank you, and sometimes even happy halloween. And at a few houses she even told them to close the door afterwards. And she kept her hat on the whole time (all the other times she wore the costume, the hat was off after the first 5 minutes). The video above is one of the first times she went up and knocked on the door herself. Too cute!

After we'd been out for about 45 minutes, Jarad took Archer home, but by now Avalon kept saying, "let's find another door to knock on mommy" so I couldn't take her home. She was so cute and she was having so much fun! We ended up being out until 8:00pm, a total of one and a half hours and past her bedtime too. What a treat!

This video is from our very last house. Her pumpkin is really full now, but she is still carrying it herself. For the most part, I carried her from door to door, but she held her pumpkin the entire time.


I thought that dressing up as a family and taking pictures would be the most fun part of halloween, as I had little expectations for trick or treating. But in the end, trick or treating with Avalon was by far the most fun!

Avalon just as we were leaving our house.

This was taken before we got to the first door.

These pictures taken right after she received the candy.
Avalon knocking on a door all by herself.

She was so excited about her pumpkin full of candy when we got home, she didn't even make it past the steps.
She took the candy out piece by piece and then started to sort it by candy type and count it too (not too surprising since she is the daughter of a statistician and an accountant.) Luckily she still doesn't know how to open them herself yet, but we did give her one piece of candy when we got home.