Maddy had SUCH a blast tonight! I was so impressed with how fast she catches on to what she's supposed to do. She put up with getting into her turtleneck and outfit. I didn't use the ODU socks since her shoes were a teensy bit tight and she was wearing tights anyway to keep her warm. But the weather was fabulous--very mild! It was in the mid-sixties at least! So she didn't need a coat at all. I taped her pompoms to her megaphone so there would only be one thing to handle. Even at that rate, I had the camera, her megaphone/candy collector and a walmart bag to put the extra candy in. Speaking of extra candy, man, people were THROWING candy at her. They'd hold out her bowl and I'd tell her to take one and they'd say, "Oh, she can have more than one, here, have MORE! MORE!" I know she's cute and all... but man, she (nor I) do not need the candy. But it was sweet.
She really did well saying Trick-or-treat and thank you. She said bye at almost every house. She would get up the stairs with my help (she's still not all that great on stairs) and run to the door to knock on it. She loves to knock on doors! We only did our court and then after that she helped me pass out candy for a little while before we came inside, watched an Elmo, ate a snack and went to bed.
She passed right out! Then again, she only got a 25 minute nap today in the car and wouldn't nap after that.
So, instead I packed her up and we headed out to the bank to deposit a check. Then after that deposit, we went over to Bed Bath and Beyond and bought a Dyson 17 Animal Vacuum Cleaner. I'm sure Maddy hated to see it go into the cart since she hates vacuums, but well.. So we brought it home, I emptied out the box and vacuumed the living room. I can't believe the amount of junk I picked up in this thing. I am in shock. I just vacuumed Monday and I had a good inch and a half of junk I picked up!
So it was an eventful day of: Dropping off the car, visiting Matt's work, going to the farm, the thrift store, the post office, out to lunch, the bank, to bed bath and beyond and trick-or-treating! I have to say, it went really fast and Maddy was worn out enough to fall asleep in 3 minutes flat.
Speaking of, I may just do the same.
Oh! I forgot to mention! She even understands the hierarchy of candy, too. The first house we went to she received a small bag of candy including a dum dum. Well, she wanted to open her candy then and there so I let her have the dum dum. Well, two houses later she received a hershey miniature. (Mind you, she's never had hershey's only M&Ms on occasion.) Well, she DITCHED the dum dum and tried to dive into the Hersheys!! LOL! What can I say, she knows good candy when she sees it!!
Caffeine of the day: Coffee with a packet of Land-o-lakes mint hot chocolate and a shot of whole milk. YUM. What a great mint mocha!