The Key to Early Learning? CANDY!

Last year Chase dressed up as a cow for Trick-or-Treat.  He had just turned 2, so he wasn't familiar with the ritual at all.

We'd start up to the house and stand back a little urging him to knock on the door.  The neighbor answered and we'd urge him to say trick or treat.  

"Trick o treat." Gorgeous little grin.

They'd ask what he was dressed as and we'd urge him to say cow.  

"Cow," he'd say.

They would inevitably ask, "What does a cow say?"  And, we'd have to encourage him again.  "Say 'moo', Chase."

He'd give his best, "Mooooooo."

After about three houses he had it down almost without a breath...

Knock-knock-trick-or-treat-I'm-a-cow-mooooooo.