Annalise's Alley: Annalise's First Trick or Treat!

I was undecided about whether or not I was going to take Anna trick-or-treating. I mean she isn't interested in candy and she is so shy that I never thought that she would ever actually want to walk up to a house that she didn't know, much less say trick-or-treat or even look at the person when he/she answered. But, I did get her a costume and I didn't want to feel like I wasted my money so we decided to give it a try. We only went to a few houses in our development and she sure did surprise me! I had told her throughout the week that if she wanted people to give her things to put in her beloved pumpkin that she would have to talk to them, etc., etc. Well, she remembered and walked right up to the first house with me and loudly said to the woman "Trick or Treat!". I was shocked. I guess she really wanted something to put in her pumpkin!. Anna thanked the woman and as we were walking away she said excitedly, "Wow! I like that lady!". She was so thrilled to get those pretzels. So we went to a few more houses and then went home which Annalise didn't mind doing at all. I just told her trick-or-treat was over and she was like, "OK, we go home now". Love that girl! When we got home I though for certain that she was going to want to try the candy, but all she cared about was the bag of pretzels. So we found other uses for the candy. We sorted it by color, type and size, we stacked it up, we counted it and talked about the letters on the wrappers and that was it! I am really glad that we took her out because she was so excited the whole time and just wanted to run, run, run. I am lucky that I got any pictures once I put that costume on her!