Mika's first trick or treat adventure!

Our first Halloween together!


Mika and Mommy made a Halloween bat using her hands!

Waiting for her bat to dry.....

Max and Mika are ready to go.

Mika is an adorable Tinkerbell. That's the very first video we watched with her after coming home from Taiwan. Mika calls the movie "Tinkerbell fly!"

Armed with 2 buckets and ready to go. The more candy the better!

Our first stop was Angie's house. We've been friends for about seven years and they're stationed on Okinawa right now too. Mika loves her! Angie always gives her Pez candy.

At Mike and Angie's house.

It was pouring down rain, but as you can see by the smiles on their faces, they didn't care.

Mika and Daddy.

Mommy and Mika. Our friend Yori joined us.

Mika with our friends Erika and "Maki cry." Mika calls her "Maki cry" because the first time she met Mika she cried the entire time we were at lunch. Now we all call her by her new nickname. Hello Maki Cry.

Mika and Max surveying the loot....

We had such a wonderful time taking Mika trick or treating for the very first time. We watched several Halloween cartoons to help prepare her for the big night out. We also let her practice knocking on the door and giving her candy, so after about a month of all this excitement, she was ready to go! She wasn't shy at all and said trick or treat at almost every house. As we were walking down the sidewalk around 7:30, she said
" Mommy, Mika tired, Mika all done." She's so cute when she makes these little announcements so matter of factly. She and Max had lots of fun...even if it did pour down rain. We went to Camp Lester. That happens to be the first base we took Max trick or treating when we moved to Okinawa back in September of 2000. It feels a little surreal sometimes to take Mika to the same place we took Max so many years ago. We are truly blessed.