Todd and I braved the cold to attend the big kids' school Halloween parade.
It's always an interesting mix at these parades. There are kids whose parents spent over $50 on a snazzy costume the child will only wear once, and there are kids who scrounged something out of the back of their closet, stuck it on their head, and called it a costume. Both approaches are fun, in very different ways.
There's my little mermaid . . .
. . . and Daniel the bat.
At the very end of the line was Joy in Homemade Costume Iteration 3: a candy corn vendor. I thought it was clever, but she was a little disappointed that her classmates kept asking what she was supposed to be.
Time to go trick-or-treating! Joy is wearing Homemade Costume Iteration 4: a superhero mask and cape from our dress-up bin. Todd refused to wear any costume whatsoever, but people still gave him candy.
That's quite a haul! There's a dentist in nearby Ellicott City who pays kids $1 per pound of candy (up to 5 pounds) the day after Halloween, and at first the kids were pretty keen on that idea, but when they saw all their sugary loot spread out on the table they decided they'd rather keep it.
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