the little lion feeding the trick-or-treaters

Maggie has chosen her favorite holiday. I dressed her in her lion suit and painted her face (she was so excited to be getting to wear makeup "like Mama's makeup"). Caleb wore Maggie's bunny costume from last year and I carried him and held Maggie's hand as we walked down our street trick-or-treating. Maggie seemed so amazed that people were giving her candy. After going to a house or two, she was going straight up to the door and banging on it, yelling, "Knock-knock! Trick-or-treat!" before I could even get there. Everyone wanted to give Caleb candy. I was so surprised how many people said, "I'll give him a sucker- that's something he's big enough to eat". One lady even game him a huge reeses candy bar. She said it was perfect for him "because it's soft". !! We only went to a few houses, and then we came home and waited for our own trick-or-treaters. Casey went to put Maggie in her high chair for dinner, and she was very disappointed to leave the big candy bowl. She was still holding a sucker and asked him to open it. He told her no, she needed to eat dinner first. She said, "Please, Daddy. Open it?" and he said no, so she started to walk away and put it back in the bowl, but then stopped and came back to him. She held the sucker up and said in her sweetest voice, "Trick-or-treat, Daddy?" After dinner we had trick-or-treaters coming ever few minutes for about two hours. Maggie got so excited every time someone knocked on the door, and carried the bowl to the trick-or-treaters to let them choose their candy. It turned out that Maggie's cousin, Cori Lee (10 days younger than Maggie), was also a lion! They stopped in and we took some pictures.