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Elmo & A Ninja (A Deadly Combination)

Happy Halloween!!! Oh wait, I guess I’m a little late huh?  Well, I’m just like “The Simpsons”, remember how they always aired their Halloween special on the Sunday after Halloween? Okay so here we go.  First off, I’m writing this post from the hotel room in Clemson, S.C. so I’m away from my normal blogging locating and it feels a little weird.  I’m out here on a business trip (which will probably end up being a blog post of its own) but I didn’t want to leave you guys without some delightful eye candy (get it? halloween, candy, eye candy, lol) to get you through your Monday!

Tre going in for the kill

Halloween was freakin awesome!  This was Tre’s first Halloween that he ‘kind of’ got it.  I say kind of, because there were some stumbling blocks along the way, but he eventually picked up on the concept and got into the spirit of Trick or Treating.

Ty wasting no time cracking that pumpkin open

Let’s start with the pumpkin carving.  Ty is quickly becoming an old pro at making jack o lanterns, I mean diving right in two hands deep and really gutting that thing.  Tre on the other hand, only wanted to blow out the candle that we put inside the pumpkin.  I tried to get him involved in the carving activities, but when I told him to pull those seeds out, he looked at me like “um, I don’t think so buddy”.

Do you want to help Tre?

The final product

Once the pumpkin was done, it was time to get the boys dressed and ready to hit the mean streets of Raleigh for some good ol fashioned Trick or Treating. Ah, that made me think of something.  What’s up with no one outside of the Greater Buffalo area knowing about “Beggars Night”?  A few days before Halloween, Fefe and I were having a conversation about “Beggars Night” and she didn’t know what the hell I was talking about.  So I turned to the Twitter world to help explain it to her; only thing is, no one outside of Buffalo knew what I was talking about either.  Is Buffalo the only city where kids went around Trick or Treating the night before Halloween?  Can someone out there please confirm the concept of “Beggars Night”, so that Fefe can stop calling Buffalo a weird city?  Anyways, so on to getting dressed right, I guess Tre thought he was going as Daddy, because he was trying his hardest to walk in my boots.

No Tre, wrong costume!!!

Once we straightened out the boot situation, we were all set.  There was only one problem, no one explained to Tre how Trick or Treating works.  The first few houses were quite hilarious, he was getting his bearings and everyone enjoyed watching him learn the ropes.  The first few houses we went to, he wouldn’t even go next to the person with the candy bowl.  But once he did, Tre’s lack of Trick or Treating savvy put smiles on all of our faces.  The first time that he actually got some candy on his own, he held on to it for dear life, as if the rightful owner was going to hunt him down and claim their belongings.  His first piece of candy was a Twizzler and it stayed in his hand for 3 houses.  On the 4^th house, he decided that the Twizzler wasn’t good enough anymore and proceeded to “trade” with the lady holding the candy bowl.  Yup that’s right folks, the kid actually gave up his piece of candy to get a better piece.  The lady tried to give it back, but he no longer wanted any parts of the Twizzler.  Ty feverishly tried to explain that you’re suppose to put the candy in your bucket and save it for later, but it took Tre a few more houses before he caught on.  After while though, he had the hang of it and was Trick or Treating like a pro, screaming out “Trick or Treat” at the top of his lungs and all.  Until someone made the mistake of handing him a sucker that is; once he got his hands on that, it was all over.  He fought tooth and nail until we finally broke down and opened the sucker for him.  Once that sucker was in his mouth, Trick or Treating was all over for him.  He didn’t want to say “Trick or Treat” anymore, didn’t want to grab anymore candy, didn’t even want his costume on, all he wanted was that sucker, so Ty carried on without his teammate but neither one of them seemed to mind.

The game ending sucker

A ninja without his Elmo, is no ninja at all, lol