Where Have All the Goblins Gone?

Happy Halloween! This year was Laykha's first. Fun times! I debated about the whole costume thing - Laykha is only 9 months. Dressing her up as some adorable little creature would be great for all of us adults, but for her, it is probably more like some strange form of torture. But, I couldn't resist.

I found a cute little giraffe costume for a nice price on ebay and started putting the plans in motion. I wasn't planning on taking Laykha trick-or-treating. She's too young for the candy. I figured if we took her around, people would think we were just using our little one to score some goodies. Instead, Laykha could dress up and help pass out candy.

Unfortunately, Halloween just isn't what it used to be. At least not here. Talk about a Ghost town! Could it be that there are just no kids in the neighborhood? Seems that a condo complex would be a nice place to accumulate a lot of candy in a little area. Not so, though.

On our street, we were the only condo with our porch light on and a Pumpkin glowing. The only one! We finally gave up on having any trick-or-treaters come and decided to take Laykha out - we'd hit up a few homes just to give little Laykha a taste of Halloween. It was probably a good thing we did, because Laykha was the only trick-or-treater those homes had.

Halloween was a bit of a different story when I was younger. I remember there being so many kids out. While going from house to house, we'd have to wait at the end of the driveway for the group in front of us to get there candy and go. When Laykha is old enough to really enjoy Halloween, I hope it is as much fun for her as I remember.