A New Game

 

"Lonnie" and Kai left again and they'll be gone for almost 3 weeks.  I'm bummed because I was really looking forward to taking the kids trick or treating for the first time.  Kai has never been because we've always lived too far away from other hourses or its snowing.  Even though Kai was missing from this adventure I decided to take the twins to the base housing area for some fun.  They had a festival going with bouncy houses and pony rides, so of course we were initally distracted from the objective of candy.

 

Orion really liked the pony rides and was doing the one-handed cowboy thing.  Ayla, on the other hand, did nothing but say "ride the pony" and then proceed to cry the whole time she was on the pony.  Sigh.  At least they liked the bouncy houses.  After an hour I suggested to Ayla, since Orion was more focused on ponies,  that we go trick or treating and she proceeded to tell me "no". 

 

 

I described what we would be doing and gave her the candy bucket which she threw on the ground and then cried. I don't really know who's child she is sometimes. So I figured that we weren't going to get candy and loaded the kids in the car. We drove in the direction of base housing and looked at the decorations and finally I asked Ayla, "See all the pretty houses, they are giving away free candy.  Don't you want to walk and get free candy?"  The response from the back was, "Free candy!"  I then explained that to get said candy we had to walk to the houses carrying our candy bucket and we had to say "trick or treat!".  I hear mumbling in the rear.  "Can you say trick or treat?"  I hear "tricktreat".  I find a place to park and we practice the scenario again before heading to the first house.  Ayla did very good at the first house.  She presented her candy bucket and said "tricktreat" and accepted her candy with a thank you.  Orion proceeded to try and take all the candy he could carry from the candy bowl and then eat it, screaming when he couldn't.  Needless to say, he was carried for most of the adventure, but Ayla is a trick or treating pro!  I'm just hoping that she doesn't expect to play the "Get Free Candy" game tomorrow!