Playing House on Halloween

Despite all of Khiem’s crazy costume creations, we didn’t end up dressing up last night. We’ll just have to save those awesome ideas for next year (or not). What we did instead was pose as two homeowners giving away candy at our friends’ place while eating pizza, roasting pumpkin seeds and watching what would turn out to be a great Raptors home opener game against Golden State (YAY - Raptors win in OT).

I love seeing all the little kiddie costumes and seeing them all happy because I gave them candy, and of course eating the candy myself. So it was that Khiem was high on Sour Patch Kids and I had made my tongue purple with Nerds by the time the first wave of children stopped by. Best costume goes to a little giraffe boy and best group costume goes to the three Korean princesses.

Kids also have the best comments and questions. Here are a few:

• Happy Halloween - do you have a dog?
• I like your pumpkin. Are you Korean?
• Hey, I like your glasses!
• Your pumpkin’s so cute! It’s so small! (good job, K)
  

And did you know kids still sing that song “Trick-or-treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat?” How OLD is that?

In all, we managed to hand out candy to approximately 50 kids who came knocking on the door, and we had a good night in. It was a nice, chill departure from the crazy (though also fun) Halloween parties of the last few years. How domestic we’ve become.

~sd