Halloween!

Il y a deux jours nous avons celebre Halloween en Irlande, qui est a l'origine de cette fete. Nous avons accompagne Lenny faire du porte a porte pour la premiere fois. Lenny etait une grosse citrouille car il faisait assez froid donc il avait plusieurs epaisseurs sous son costume!

Two days ago, we celebrated in Ireland Halloween, which is originally from Ireland. For the first time we took Lenny "Trick or Treating" in the neighborhood. Lenny was a chubby pumpkin (the night was cold so we put a lot of layers underneath his costume).

Lenny etait tout fier d'avoir les cheveux oranges!

Lenny was so proud to have coloured his hair orange for the occasion!

Premiere porte, premier sac de bonbons! Nous avons commence par le voisine d'a cote qui n est autre que la directrice de la creche de Lenny> En tant qu infirmiere puericultrice elle adore les enfants et avait prepare plein de petits sacs de bonbons pour les enfants. Lenny avait l'air si content que l'on pourrait croire qu'il est prive a la maison de bonnes choses!

First door, first sweets bag! We started with our next door neighboor who is Lenny's nursery's manager. As a pediatric nurse she obviously loves children and had prepared lots of sweets bags for the children. Look how Lenny is proud and happy... as if he nevers gets those things at home!

Deuxieme porte, la prof Montessori qui travaille a la creche de Lenny, elle habite en face de chez nous. Elle avait aussi prepare des petits sacs et nous a meme confie qu'elle en avait fait 60 car l'an passe 55 enfants ont frappe a sa porte! Nous nous sommes dit que nous etions un peu court car nous avions "seulement" achete une boite de 800g de "Quality Street"!

Second door, Terry, the Montessori teacher who works at Lenny's nursery. She lives across the street, we are well surounded, aren't we? She also had prepared little bags for children. You can also tell from the picture that she also loves children! She told us that she had prepared 60 bags as she had 55 kids knocking at her door last year! Suddenly Freddy and I felt we would run out quickly of sweets at home as we had "only " bought the biggest box of Quality Street!

Lenny etant encore jeune, nous avons seulement frappe aux portes de notre rue qui etaient decorees, soit environ une douzaine. Lenny y a pris gout tres rapidement! Il a rapporte un sac en forme de citrouille plein de bonbons de toutes sortes et 4 sacs d'assortiments. Certains voisins etaient si organises!

Quant a nous, nous avons rapidement ete a court de bonbons, ce fut la panique! nous avons fait les fonds de tiroirs, tout en regardant la date de peremption, je vous rassure! A la fin nous avons donne des Petits Filous tant nous etions a court! Nous etions pres a sortir les fruits! J aurai alors aime voir la tete des enfants si je leur avais offert de beaux raisins blancs ou des bananes!

Lenny is still young so we only knocked at the houses in our street that were decorated or had a pumpkin, a total of twelve. Lenny came back home with a pumpkin bag full of sweets and chocolate including for bags prepared by our nice neighbors. Some people are so organised and generous!

Coming back home we had a lot of "trick or treaters" and we ran out very quickly so we opened all our cupboards trying to find sweets and chocolate bars, we ended up giving "petits Filous" a french brand of fromage frais! We were very close to give fruits! I would have loved to see the children faces if we had given them white grapes and bananas!