My son started running a mild fever yesterday and it was pushing higher as the day wore on. We had planned to take him to a daytime trick-or-treat event because he also likes to hand out candy to the kids that come to our house. We decided it was going to be best if we scrubbed the daytime event. I was afraid he'd get more sick if we dressed him up in his padded Spidey costume since it was also pretty warm out. Instead we gave him a dose of Tylenol, made him drink some water, and had him take a nap. We also ordered pizza for dinner which is his favorite. He scarfed down two slices, so I knew he wasn't terribly ill (it's just a regular cold imo). His temp had gone down, too, so we all got dressed up and went out around our block for about an hour. Not many people were giving out candy. One house had a bag by the door with "Take One" written on it. It had Play-doh and other non-candy goodies in it. There were some houses that had their porchlights on and front doors open (with the screen door closed, of course), but no one would answer when we rang the doorbell. When we got back home, we probably had about 30 trick-or-treaters come around. That's a lot less than we had last year. I'm wondering if fears over the spread of H1N1 played a part in how many people gave out candy or were sending their kids out.
Oh and he was Spider-Man, the baby was a black cat, I was a gypsy/pirate, and my husband was a skeleton.