And so we did celebrate, a little bit.

Lawrence finally noticed Luke yesterday.  This is him holding him for the first time.  Only took 7 weeks!  All the other kids were outside with Mark and Lawrence heard him crying and went over and said, "He's cute isn' he."  Then he felt bad for him because I was busy so he started to sing to him and wanted to hold him!  Even later, when he was crying again, Lawrence went over and wanted to hold him again!

So, I was going to avoid the holiday here.  I mean, I'm tired, I didn't plan and well, I thought it would be easy as we are not in America.  Thank you very little kindergarten, they talked about the holiday all week and Lawrence was committed to getting some candy.  At first his plan was to go to the neighbors and ask them to give him candy.  When I wouldn't allow it, he decided it would be fine to shut the door of the kitchen and have the kids knock, say trick or treat and for me to give them all some candy.  I was fine with this, but then I thought about Lisa and her love for holidays.  She agreed to let us come across the courtyard and up to her apartment to "trick or treat".  And as you can see below, she made it extra special for us by buying pumpkins to color and some Halloween treats.  

And, you won't believe this, but after we got home I actually got a trick or treater myself!!  Our new downstairs neighbor(we haven't moved yet, but we will, hopefully, move end of Jan or beginning of Feb) in the same complex but to a bigger apartment, and the downstairs neighbors have 2 kids Car and Law's age.  Anyway, that was a run on sentence if ever there was one, but I am sleep deprived and hoping to get to bed now as my hubs has been out of town for 2 days.  OH my, anyway, she came and had a pumpkin to collect candy and even said "trick or treat".  Then she told us we needed to come to her house to collect our treats, to which the kids all screamed, but to which I said, "I'm sorry we are going to bed".    I'll be more prepared next year and more willing to be flexible, hopefully.

This video is mostly for the grandparents.  I was trying to capture our friend ZP reading to Jud, but the lighting is bad.  Luke steals the show at the end, tho I'm warning you its a long footage of the same babes.