Trick or Treat!

By the time we finished dinner, the doorbell had begun ringing. With each trick-or-treater, our girls became more excited. They weren't tired at all. They just wanted to go!

Daddy went trick-or-treating with the girls while Mama stayed home to hand out candy.

Daddy reported that although Kathleen didn't always remember to say "trick or treat," she did a great job of saying "thank you." On a few occasions, she even engaged people in conversation. "Oh," they'd say, "you're so cute!"

"I know," she'd say (we raise them modest, don't we?), "I'm a fairy. I have fairy wings. And a fairy skirt. And a fairy wand. And Baby Madeline's a fairy, too!"

After a trip around the block, Daddy and the girls came home. The girls were nearly as excited about handing out candy as they had been about collecting it. In fact, when we ran out of candy (an hour before the end of "official" trick-or-treating) Kathleen offered to give away her own.

We hope your evening ended with something sweet, too.