We had an eventfilled weekend...so we will take it one day at a time.
Friday was Halloween. Kieran and Riley were not allowed to dress up for school...but the middle schoolers were not told they "couldn't" so quite a few kids got pretty into it. Even a few teachers showed their Halloween spirit. After school i went on a halloween bag/candy hunt since i am one of those mothers who leaves everything til the last minute. Luckily there were 4 pumpkin buckets left at the local grocery store....they were free as long as you bought candy. the candy here is very different than back home. This was good for me b/c most of the stuff here i am a little leary of...but back in the states i would have to "screen" kieran and kellan's candy for the ones I liked. Snickers and M & M's are about the only things i really recognized. Quite a bit of Chinese candy...and several people giving out single gummy worms...there were so many kids i think a lot of people either ran out or were trying to ration their candy!
So we had our Ayi, Li Xien, her son and nephew over. We had Papa John's pizza and then headed out for trick or treating about 5:45. It was a beautiful day....i made the boys wear sweatshirts unde r their costumes just to make sure they were warm enough...and they were plenty warm.
As you will see from the pictures.....kellan was a clown and kieran was of course spiderman. The two little boys that came with us were batman and spiderman...great kids...and they absolutely loved trick or treating. for one of them, it was his first time!
Once kellan figured out what was going on....he was leading the charge! he would run from house to house trying to be the first one to the door. Afer a while he lost interest and went on daddy's shoulders. There was one house...where one of my team teachers lives....where he sat outside of his house dressed up and scaring kids while handing out candy. Kieran wouldn't even go around the corner to see him he was so sccared. Riley made kellan go and get some candy and after leaving...kellan put his head on daddy's head and said "I'm scared."
After about 1 1/2 hours of trick or treating around the compound..kellan and i headed home to relieve our ayi who was there handing out candy. we must have had 200-300 kids at our place b/c we ened up having to go through kieran and kellan's candy and pulling out all the nasty chinese candy and we "re-gifted" that to those junior high kids who were still ringing the doorbell late! One of kieran's classmates (who is from America) took a bite of a chinese piece of candy last year at Halloween and ever since then....he doesn't eat anything except m & M's! Good way to discipline your kids...let them try (or give them) nasty candy so they get a bad association to candy.
We were all pretty shot by the end of the night and ready to hit the sack. We had lots of plans for saturday...which will be the next blog entry...until then...stay tuned!
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