Grace's Halloween

Pat and I spent most of the Halloween moving out of our Brooklyn apartment. However, I had a chance to take Grace on her first trick-or-treating adventure!

Here is Grace tramping through the fall leaves, going door-to-door, ringing bells, and not saying "Trick-or-Treat." However, her toddler charm always won her plenty of accolades and extra candy each time she visited a house. Her little Elmo candy bucket filled up with sweets...and Grace was very excited by this new turn of events. She is a very friendly and social girl...and here she was able to knock on doors and meet different people. Even better, these people gave her fun, colorful packages with yummy treats. Even though Grace does not get to eat candy, she intuitively knew that these brightly wrapped items were somehow something delicious to eat!

As you can see, Grace didn't start her adventure off as a happy camper. Pearl had a tutu custom-made so Grace could be Zoe Ballerina from Sesame Street. Grace was not feeling the costume, and screamed her protests. In this picture, she is trying very hard to pull off the tutu. Once she left the house, and saw that this tutu thing meant people said she was cute and, furthermore, meant people gave her shiny packages of chocolatey goodness...well, she was all smiles. She ended her Halloween with her first taste of chocolate candy (Reese's Cup, Twix, and KitKat)...and a mouth covered with chocolate!

Happy Halloween to you all! Hope it was sweet!