A Happy Halloween

Last night we had a small Halloween party for the kids (Kalynn and her buds Joshua and Jessica). This will be our last "major" holiday celebrated in Germany as we will be returning to the United States a few days before Thanksgiving. We had a great time and delicious treats. Melissa made some yummy Frankenstein cupcakes and Marco cut up some cute Monster Mouth apple bites. We played "pin the face on the pumpkin". Kalynn's came out pretty good, to be blindfolded! The kids decorated spooky sugar cookies and made haunted scenes from foam, stickers, glitter glue, and lots of giggles. Speaking of giggles, check out Joe wearing a pink cowboy hat and Marco wearing Kalynn's princess earring (with his Frankenstein head topper)! Now that was funny!!! Also funny was the fact that Kalynn had mini meltdown because she did not want to wear the skirt that came with her Princess Tiana costume but instead wanted to wear her old ratty pink skirt that besides being waaaaay too overused is getting waaaaay too short. After "arguing" with her that it did not match I finally relented after the crocodile tears came and she was a happy camper after that! Who knows, maybe she will grow up to be a huge fashion designer. Who am I to stunt her creativity!? LOL
We got quite a few more trick-or-treaters this year than last year. We even had some come to our door the day BEFORE Halloween! That was hilarious! They insisted that it was Halloween. Anyway, we *gasp* ran out of candy and had to shut her down around 8:00pm. Marco discovered that the T-o-Ters had taped a sign to our gate that they had handwritten on a sheet of paper that said "Süßes oder Saures", which is a German equivalent to Trick or Treat, to let others know that our house gave out candy. Since trick-or-treating has not really caught on big in Germany, it was nice to see the youth helping out the others by directing to the folks that are participating. However, we still had people buzzing our gate for about another hour after we removed the sign and turned off the Halloween lights! One set of revelers, after learning we had given out all of the candy earlier, told Marco "But we got dressed up. Give us anything... crackers, fruit, whatever." I had to laugh at that.