s/o Trick or Treating

Scramblersmom · September 2012

How many of you are planning on taking your LOs out? I am especially interested in how many of you are taking your LOs out Trick or Treating when they will be the only child with you. I am debating whether to just dress DS up and stay home to pass out candy or actually take him out. He is too young to be eating all of that candy but on the other hand it would be fun to take him around. I am not sure what to do :-l

Fianschneid · September 2012

There isn't a lot of door-to-door trick-or-treating in the city but our neighborhood businesses have a day where the kids go from store to store in the costumes. DD doesn't need the candy but I think she'll like seeing the other kids.

LCass · September 2012

I think we might dress Lily up and then take her over to our friends' place to "trick or treat" and then hang out with them for a while.

missyishere · September 2012

We are, but I also have a 9 year old step-daughter we're taking. We are going as s'mores family (my DH and I are graham crackers, 9 yr old is chocolate, baby is mallow), so we just have to all go together! Like the PP said, our town has a mass trick-or-treat area too. We will still do door to door in our area, because we live by the school.

Shannon526 · September 2012

Since Halloween is on a Wednesday, we probably won't do too much. I did buy L a "My 1st Halloween" onesie/pant set, because I didn't get to use the one I had for her last year.

The weekend before Halloween is my cousin's kids' birthday party, so I might dress her up in something costume-y for that, I'm not sure yet. The weekend after is L's 1st birthday party, so she won't be wearing a costume then.

I guess the short answer is, I haven't even thought about this yet haha.

cantalopes24 · September 2012

If someone showed up at my house with a baby and no other kids (this has happened) I would not give them candy. IMO it's silly to take a baby trick or treating, they don't get it and the candy is clearly for the parent who 99% of the time didn't even bother to put a costume on themselves. If you want me to give you candy you better be dressed up. Stick them in a costume and take them for a walk if you want to show off but don't go trick or treating.

sabriel1 · September 2012

We're taking her around. We live in a small subdivision where everyone knows everyone so we'll just take her around and show her off and go for a little visit type thing.

lkm2006 · September 2012

We are taking him. I'm going with my two sisters who each have kids 5 months older than DS so they will be doing it together.

ETA: we are going to my sisters neighborhood where we will go to houses of people we know. I'm definitely not doing it for candy for myself. I have already gotten a ton of candy for our own house! I just love Halloween!

Sammy-Mae · September 2012

We took DD out when she was 10 months old. We ate her candy. It was worth it. lol. DS will be coming out with us for a little while this year and DH will hand out candy.

CMonkey515 · September 2012

I have a few friends with older kids that trick-or-treat in my neighborhood. If it's a nice day we'll walk along with them. DS won't actually be trick-or-treating. At this age he won't understand what he's doing, and I don't think dragging him from door to door will be fun for him. He definitely won't be eating any candy either. I'm sure he'll enjoy the walk though.

amyc216 · September 2012

I think we will just take him to our surrounding neighbors that know us.

AngLK987 · September 2012

AA0417:
We are going around to the grandparents' houses (including great grandparents), plus a few other family members' houses if there is time. It's mainly to let everyone see LO all dressed up (although I admit I want some candy for myself).

This is us! We'll take DD around to see our close friends & family... plus I want the candy I'm sure her grandparents will have a special trick or treat prize for her, we may also go to the local halloween party so she can see all the kids. My rec department also does a trick or treat hayride the friday before halloween, I'll probably take her on that as well so that we can hang out with my rec kiddos.

kagl08 · September 2012

We are going since our 2yr old will want to go with her little friends. However, if it was just DS we would probably not go. Seems a little silly since clearly he won't be eating candy.

blu-eyedwife · September 2012

We're not going door-to-door, but we'll take LBB in costume to our local shopping center. They always have stuff for the kids. At Easter we happened to be stopping at the bank and they were doing an "easter egg hunt" where kids went from store to store and got easter eggs filled with gum. LBB loved picking out his own plastic egg at each store, even though he didn't get the gum. They're doing a store-to-store trick or treating too, and I think LBB will love seeing all the other kids dressed up and getting to pull things out of baskets.

scarlettoctober · September 2012

Our church members set up in our church hall to hand out candy during the town's ToT time, so we'll probably take DS around to see our church people, but not go door-to-door.

Scramblersmom · September 2012

Yeah I thought it would be silly to take him door to door when he is not even knowledgeable about what is going on and DH and I would get stuck with candy. We also don't know anyone in town really except for a couple of neighbors. The mall by our work usually has some sort of event so maybe I will consider dressing him up and taking him out for that. I could always invite my niece and nephew but it is a long drive for them to my house especially on a school night.

sabriel1 · September 2012

holly1416:
We're taking her around. We live in a small subdivision where everyone knows everyone so we'll just take her around and show her off and go for a little visit type thing.

I should add that there is no way we are going to take any candy. She's not bringing a basket and we would not accept any... lopes, that's wierd, I couldn't imagine parents doing that :S yikes

cantalopes24 · September 2012

Packerfan79:
cantalopes24:
If someone showed up at my house with a baby and no other kids (this has happened) I would not give them candy. IMO it's silly to take a baby trick or treating, they don't get it and the candy is clearly for the parent who 99% of the time didn't even bother to put a costume on themselves. If you want me to give you candy you better be dressed up. Stick them in a costume and take them for a walk if you want to show off but don't go trick or treating.
Lopes. this made me laugh.  I imagined you going NO CANDY FOR YOU!

If the kid is walking or sitting up in a wagon I have lollipops I unwrap and hand to the kid and I give the parents an "I dare you to say something about your kid eating candy" look. If not I've gone with responses like "What are yousupposed to be" "Come back next year" and "Yeah, no"

monishabansal · September 2012

I think we''ll go to a few houses on our street and then just pass out candy. I'm really excited for our costumes.

EloiseWeenieSkipperdee · September 2012

I'll be taking Amelia out TOTing, like last year, but I have a 3 year old. When my son was little, I just dressed him up and stayed home. Several friends in our neighborhood told us to stop by before "official" TOT time started, and they had gotten a little goodies for him (little toys, baby snacks, etc.- it was really sweet). We had just as much fun sitting in our front lawn and greeting TOTers. Especially when other friends in the neighborhood joined us and we could load kids up with candy.

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