Yesterday at therapy the kids were able to wear their Halloween costumes. At first, X didn't want to wear his at all. We are still trying to get him to transition smoothly from the car, to therapy. It's still a battle, but I'm confident we will get there one day. As we were waiting for him to go back, a set of twins came in wearing their costumes. At that point, X looked at me and pointed to himself, I asked if he wanted to finally put his costume on and he nodded yes. We ran to the car, suited him up, and he came into the building roaring at everyone. He was the cutest dinosaur I've ever laid eyes on!
During his sessions, the therapists took each child door to door of the other therapists to help them understand trick or treating. The center he goes do deals with special needs children, and doing this helps the children grasp a concept of what they'll be doing on Halloween night. I thought it was really neat and he seemed to have enjoyed it.
H came home from school complaining of a sore throat and he felt pretty warm, but he sure was okay to go trick or treating! ;) For dinner we had sandwiches, fresh fruit, veggies, and hummus. Might as well start off the night with a healthy dinner before the candy raid begins.
We got the children dressed and ready to go, we decided we'd check out the base chapel who held a trunk or treat. It turned out being a bust, so we opted to stay on the main part of base housing and trick or treat. After realizing that only 5 houses on one block was participating, we hurried back to the other side of base to let the kids trick or treat in our neighborhood where there were tons of houses participating.
H and N had a blast going door to door. H is more reserved and with him not feeling well, he wasn't as talkative; wait I take that back... he told us everything he knew about each piece of candy he received. X on the other hand wanted nothing to do with trick or treating, not one bit. He decided to run the streets roaring as loud as his little voice would let him, not paying any mind to anyone near him.
Usually we let the kids pick out about 15 pieces of candy, and then my husband takes the rest of it to work (we don't keep candy in our house). Since we kind of ate up time trying to get to a decent place for them to trick or treat, they each got around 20 pieces in their so we decided to just let them keep it. I also heard about a candy called UNREAL where it's all natural, no preservatives, no dyes, etc. so I figured after I get done at H's psychologist appointment I'd run by CVS and grab a few for X since he didn't get any.
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