Trick or Treat!

Halloween night.  Garfield eating lasagna.  (Yes, this was a planned photo-op.)

Ben insisted on wearing the "paws."

Getting ready to trick-or-treat for the first time in our new neighborhood.

Mike was just going to take Maddy along to a few houses, just to see some neighbors.  That was the plan, anway...

...until Ben found another group of kids and went up and down our street with them.  There were several parents there, so Mike tagged along with Maddy.  In this picture you can see Ben running across a neighbor's yard with some other kids.

Strawberry Shortcake was very chatty.

Our next-door neighbors took this picture at the end of the night.  They said that even though there were only something like seven kids that went door-to-door, it was the best turnout our street has gotten in five years.  There's only one other house on our street that has kids.  But there are plenty of residents who love to have trick-or-treaters.

Surveying his loot.  Over half of his candy was stuff he couldn't eat because it had peanuts or peanut butter in it.  So we let him swap that stuff out for the allergy-friendly candy we had leftover.  And then I made Mike take all the peanut butter candy to work.

So tired he can barely smile for this picture.