Beggar's Night

After our plane ride, the kids for ready to go treat-or-treating. In Iowa they have Beggar's Night the day before Halloween. The state made this for the children's safety, so the kids aren't running around on Halloween Day.

Hailey is a kitty cat and Robert is Thomas the Tank Engine.

Here is Gramma wrestling Hannah into her butterfly costume.

Robert was so excited to be Thomas. This boy just loves trains.

Hannah's cute little wings as she crawls away.

Hailey also wanted her face painted. So here is Gramma trying her best.  She did a wonderful job. Hailey was so pleased with it.  I would have just done simple, boring whiskers; but thankfully Gramma went all out.

Here's the kids at their first stop (Gramma and Grampa's house). This great action picture is taken through their screen door.

Hannah was in her stroller the whole time, but Robert and Hailey occasionally got candy for her and put it in her bucket.

Here's pretty kitty with her make-up on.

Even Robert got Thomas painted on his cheek.

We just went around the block and was out for an hour.  This felt like the right amount of time to me, though I remember as a kid (10ish) going through several neighborhoods.

A few houses had their candy on their porch.  The kids were excited to hit every house.

Hannah was pretty content in her stroller the whole time. And it seemed like one moment she was awake. Then the next moment, she was...

...asleep, snug as a bug!

The kids had fun admiring the different decorations that were out.

Hailey was talking a lot to one neighbor and near the end of the conversation he told her she was a very smart cookie. Then Hailey frowned and said "I'm a kitty!" like she couldn't believe and was a little insulted that he couldn't tell what she was.

I love this decoration.  It makes me laugh. Then Hailey asked this neighbor if that was supposed to be funny. He told her he thought it was funny and that she got the joke behind it.

Here we are at our last stop.  It feels more like Halloween when you go around a neighborhood instead of a complex.