Claire had a very fun and very busy Halloween week. It started with an extra special Kindermusik class on Thursday where the kids got to wear their costumes. Claire and her friends, Sadie and Elizabeth had a lot of fun in the class with their costumes on. Claire was very good at identifying Elizabeth and Sadie as a duck and a bee. She would frequently point at them and say duck or bee.
On Friday we went to Carney Park for their big Halloween party. We met up with Sadie and her family and the girls had a good time riding the Halloween train around the golf course and they had their first taste of trick-or-treating. The best part of the evening was certainly when the parents were hanging out eating dinner and the Sadie and Claire spent ages taking candy out of each others' trick-or-treat buckets and putting it back in. They had a fantastic time re-arranging the candy and taking it and giving it to one another. I think in the end, Sadie ended up with more candy, but Claire held her own.
Saturday was a very busy day. In the morning we went to see Elizabeth and for a fantastic brunch with her family and Sadie's family. They live closer to downtown Naples and they have a fantastic view. The girls had fun playing, as usual.
Saturday evening we went to the support site to have dinner at a friends' house and then we went trick-or-treating. Claire had a great time walking around, holding her daddy's hand and her pumpkin bucket. I'm not sure she really "got" what was going on, but she loved seeing all of the kids in their costumes and running around after them.
She especially fell in love with a little boy dressed as Elmo and as he walked away, she promptly followed after him. I'm sure she would have happily joined that family if I hadn't run after her.
Now, she is peacefully sleeping after a long couple of days and I am doing what I'm sure every parent does on Halloween night after their kids have gone to bed.... eat their candy!
