This was Kate's second Halloween, and she was of course way more interested in the goings on than last year. She loved her "monkey suit" and wore it a good part of the afternoon in anticipation of the evening's festivities. We first went to Uncle Casey's house to give him the honor of being her first "trick or treat." That's where we snapped this family pic:
We then returned to our own neighborhood, and once she saw other kids it didn't take her long to get the hang of this trick or treat business.
We just visited a few houses on our street, then returned back to our house to sit outside and hand out candy. Kate really loved sitting and sorting candy from her bag to the big bowl, back and forth. When kids came up and we showed Kate how to drop candy into their bags, she got really into it and didn't want to stop. She kept giving them more and more, until we finally had to cut her off before she emptied our supplies. 
Inside, Kate continued the candy sorting. She loved checking out all the wrappers.
Of course, being that she's only 17 months old, the plan was for mom and dad (ok, mostly mom) to get 99.9% of the spoils and for Kate to get 0.1%. But, my scheme was ruined by the continued stream of trick or treaters at our door. We wound up with only a few pieces of candy leftover. :-( Considering Kate is sick with what we think is croup, she did remarkably well this evening, and I think the distraction was a good one for both her and us. PS: This past weekend we had a visit from my wacky brother in his Halloween costume.
Kate was a little wary of Uncle Chicken at first, but then got up the nerve to offer him some tea.
We all had fun trying on the chicken head, and Casey is right...nearly everything you do in a chicken suit is funny.
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