trick...or treat?

i realize that this post comes a little late, but yada yada yada - i'm posting, right? right. so happy belated halloween from our little skeleton!!!

for the first time in a long time, i left work at 5:00pm on halloween night. although brandon had to work that night and missed out on the fun, i was eager to take ahonui to meet up at marcus & nue's house to go trick or treating with my family. however, since i usually don't pick up the little guy until 6 or 7pm, my mother in law didn't expect my earlier-than-usual arrival in kahuku. ahonui was covered in dirt from the day's play outside. so i packed up the little dirt monster and bathed & scrubbed him clean at home. while i made him a quick dinner, i put on his favorite movie of the moment, "hairspray" (i know, i know...but he asks for it everyday. what's a mom to do?), fed the boy, put on his skeleton costume, and off we went to trick or treat around laie.

it has seriously been years since i've been trick or treating (last year was too rainy & wet to go out and ahonui was a non-walking HEAVY baby), but i don't recall there ever being as many people as there were that night! it was a beautiful hawaiian autumn night and the streets were swarmed with trick or treaters! we started on iosepa street and made our way down moana street. the interesting thing was that we didn't knock on a single door...most people sat outside at the edge of their driveway with their big candy bowls, which made the process so much easier for all us candy pirates.

as you can see, ahonui didn't quite comprehend the whole "free stuff giveaway" concept from each home. and although he clung like an opihi to my leg when he was afraid of most of the costumes around town, he seemed to enjoy himself. unfortunately, after about an hour of walking, he began tripping over his own feet and going in circles. i assumed that he was getting tired - and i was right. i picked him up and he plopped his head down on my shoulder and knocked out! thankfully, my brother, jared, took the heavy load off of me for awhile as we headed home. (i think he's just preparing for his first little one coming next month!)

it was so much more fun to go trick or treating with my nieces & nephew: azure ("princess jasmine"), little royal ("jj the airplane"), and karly (as she put it, a "spa lady").

although the little skeleton was fast asleep during half of the candy trek, it was a memorable halloween experience.