"Trick or Treat!"

Halloween was a hit for the Parsons family this year! I explained all day to Micah what we were going to do that night, and by the end of the day, my scheme to teach him to say "trick or treat" worked....sort of. He got the most important part, TREAT. Whenever we would go to a new place for candy he would timidly look up with his big dark eyes and say "treat." Micah was a frog and Tyler was a snowball that ended up melting into santa (the snowball suit was just too hot). And mama was a fairy. Hey, I had to get into it too, and I take any chance I can to balance out the amounts of testosterone in the family!
Micah the Froggie

Tyler the Snowball

So here is how the night went....
First, we went to the shops at Town Center Plaza close to our house becuase they were handing out candy to trick or treaters. Micah and Tyler got many oooo's and aahhhh's from the workers there! The first thing Micah got was a root beer sucker, and he worked on that for the next 2 hours of festivities!!

Next, we went to the nursing home to visit Great Grandmom. She was thrilled to see us stop by and had made a very special goodie bag for Micah full of wonderful treats. He seemed to bring joy to all of the people in the nursing home, and we were so glad we went to visit.

Then, we went to Grandmom, Poopah, and Rah Rah's house, went up to the door, rang the doorbell and said "treat!"

Next we went to a neighborhood church that was having a huge "Fall Fun Fest" and marveled at all they had. Micah did a cake walk with Grandmom, a bean bag toss, and got lots of candy.

After that, we went back to Grandmom and Poopah's for candy and the grown ups had hot Starbucks coffee.


so all in all, it was a FULL, EVENTFUL, EXCITING, WONDERFUL night! Micah enjoyed so many new kinds of candy he didn't even know existed, and this morning when he woke up, he was asking for "candy,candy."