Halloween 2012

At least this "costume" is warmer than the sumo wrestler we were considering.

2 disclaimers:
1) Halloween is not a big deal in the UK. It's gaining momentum, and most neighbourhoods have trick-or-treaters, but definitely not all neighbourhoods, and the majority of houses aren't handing out candy.
2) We're living out of suitcases, so a costume for Gavin wasn't even in the top 50 important things for our October. Also, we have no neighbourhood because we're homeless.

All of that just to say that we had a very downplayed Halloween this year. Gavin didn't go trick-or-treating, but he did collect candy at the "Trunk or Treat" the church held.  

People, such as our pirate friend Hollie, hand out candy from their cars
at a Trunk or Treat.

Here are a few photos of Gavin enjoying his haul the next day.

We discovered that Gavin isn't currently a fan of candy that isn't chocolate. Here's a video of him trying a Laffy Taffy for the first time. (I hate my own voice (and laughter) on it, but I'm posting it anyway because Gavin's hilarious.)

After this scene he asked me with every piece of candy whether it was chocolate or not, discarding the non-chocolate items back into the bucket. (His manner of asking simply consisted of saying "tocky?")

Some of Gavin's friends did have adorable costumes, like Michaela and Hazel below. Maybe next year we won't be slackers. I'm not promising anything.