We met up with Sara's friend to do a bit of  Hallowe'en trick'or'treating with their kids.  We had two great costumes for Cam to wear but we ended up going with the warmer one since it was cold out.  It was a dragon costume and it was perfect for the night time walk since it was a very shiny green.  Cam even received a "That's the best costume I've seen tonight!" comment.  Cam didn't like the big dragon head on his head and kept pulling at it, but he had fun walking around with the other kids.

Cam in costume

It turned out to be quite balmy in the evening so we had a very pleasant outing.  Most of the houses we hit had major stairs to get up to their doors and we carried Cam up and down the stairs.  Sara and I had to take turns carrying Cam.  Towards the end of the night, the houses all had ground level doors so we were able to let Cam run around on his own - lucky for us since our arms were starting to burn with the exertion of carrying him up and down many steep stairs.

Cam got the hang of trick'or'treating very quickly; he was confidently walking up to the doors, reaching into their loot bags to take out candy, and bringing back to us to put it into his own candy bag.  We actually got $4 in change from one guy.  Score!

When we got home, Cam had fun taking the candy out of the candy bag and putting it back in.  At first, the candy were just new toys for Cam, things to put in and out of the loot bag.  That all changed when he saw Sara eat some of the candy.  After that, everything went into his mouth and we had to be quick about pulling things out of his mouth.  He got at some mini Reese peanut butter cups that are wrapped in tinfoil, and he ended up biting through the tinfoil right to the chocolate before we could get to him.  I had to put the candy bag up high, out of Cam's reach.

It was great fun watching Cam trick or treating with the other kids, I'll try to post some movies of him running around in his dragon outfit.  In the meantime, take a look at some of the Hallowe'en pictures.