Trick-Or-Treat? Treats please!!!

For Halloween this year we had cute little zoo animals to take around trick-or-treating. Claire was a Kangaroo and Quinn was a Lion. Quinn was only a lion for part of the time because the costume was a little big and she kept trying to eat the mane. Claire loved being a roo and carrying around her Joey. It is too bad we don't know anyone named Joey because she says that name perfectly. I wasn't sure if Claire was going to wear the costume but as soon as she saw Quinn put hers on there was no way she wasn't getting dressed up. We had a really good time.

This year we took the girls to Discovery land "Cute and Spooky" in Sand Springs. It was so cute. They had hayrides, petting zoo, face painting, jupiter jumps, pony rides, and an enchanted forest with non-scary furry friends to hand out candy. We tried letting Claire ride a pony...it did not go so well. She was NOT getting on that pony for anything. She crossed her legs and was in no way getting in the saddle. She did not even want to pet the pony first. It was a good thing that we just had to wait in line and that it didn't cost anything to ride, or in this case, not ride. She would, however, say pony. We went through the enchanted forest to get candy and I really thought Claire would be ok. Not sure what I was thinking since I am a little afraid of big people in mascot type costumes. (I am scared of the power cat from KSU...I mean come on, a cat head and a persons body, just creepy) Anyway, they had ducks and bears and rabbits. Claire took candy from the first character and then gave it back to the second. It was cute, I tried to tell her she puts the candy in her pumpkin (she calls it a "pumpin") but the concept at that moment was lost to her. She was too busy trying to figure out why a giant rabbit would be giving her candy. She didn't even know what candy was until that night. She decided she didn't like it and started to get frightened. So we picked her up and out of the enchanted forest we went with about 3 pieces of candy.

Halloween was observed in Glenpool, where we live, on Saturday. So while we were at Camp cute and spooky everyone was wishing we were home so they could come to our house and trick-or-treat and get candy. Halloween was observed on Sunday in Jenks so we drove a couple of miles and went through our friends,the Jang's ,neighborhood and took Claire to get a few tasty treats for mommy and daddy. Ummmm....I mean for herself. I wasn't quite sure what to expect out of Claire. This would be the first year she could walk up to a house and ask for candy. The first couple she was a little timid but by the end she would walk up, hold out her plastic "pumpin", and as soon as the candy was dropped in she would turn around and walk away. Her and Alex would say "Ready, GO!" and would run to the next house. It was so adorable to watch her little kangaroo tail swing from side to side as she ran. Her and Alex have such a good time and it is so fun to watch them interact with each other. We knew we were done when the kids were slowing down in between houses and trying to carry their pumpkins in the crook of their arms because they were getting heavy. We made it home with quite the stash! Claire came home and immediately dumped her candy on the floor and started going through it. Like I said, she does not even know what candy is but she had a really good time putting it back in the pumpkin and then dumping it all over again. Jared was on the floor picking out what he knew Claire wasn't going to be allowed to eat plus a few extras that he wanted.

I am sure you are wondering about the sweet little lion, Quinn. She was such a good little cub and tried to take it all in. She loves to people watch and to see people dressed up looking silly, what could be better? She played in Claire's pile of candy once Claire went to bed. She had a good time trying to get things open. Next year Quinn, it will be a whole new world.