"There we go," Carol proclaimed, snapping the last button closed on the baby's onesie.

The 5-month-old blinked up at her, clearly indifferent to her efforts. She tickled his little foot, getting a giggle in reward.

"Cookies now?" Judith asked, bouncing over next to Carol to see the little boy's teddy bear outfit.

The two-year-old was dressed as Supergirl; when Carol had raided the costume shop the previous week, the toddler selection had been very limited, but she'd eventually settled on a shirt with the Supergirl logo on the front and a little red cape sewn on at the shoulders, pairing it with red pants. The selection for infants had been even slimmer, but she didn't want to leave out Glenn and Maggie's son. The two of them already had to miss out on so many parenting moments; getting to dress your baby in a costume on Halloween just to coo over them was a parenting right.

"The cookies are for after dinner," she reminded the little girl. "You can have a piece of candy when Eric gets here, though."

"Mable candy?"

"Mmhmm," Carol confirmed. "Just like the syrup. He made a big batch of it for today. You'll love it."

The three of them were in Carol and Daryl's room, where Carol had spent the past 10 minutes getting them both dressed in their costumes, wanting to surprise the rest of the household. Just when she was trying to figure out what to do with them so she could get ready, though, Daryl's voice interrupted her.

"What.. are you doing?" he asked from the doorway, sounding baffled.

"Playing puhtend, Dull!" Judith answered before Carol could. That was how Carol had explained it to her; the toddler didn't really understand the idea of annual holidays just yet, and she'd never even heard of Halloween, so Carol had just told her it was a day where people dressed up in costumes and sometimes got candy. She'd been satisfied with that explanation.

"I can see that, Jude," Daryl snorted, and looked to Carol. "Can I ask why?"

"Don't you know what day it is?"

"No?"

"October 31st?"

"Oh…" he said slowly. "Never was much for the holiday, myself."

"Well, there's going to be candy, if that helps," Carol offered. "And now that you're here, you can watch these two while I get ready." She stood and passed the baby to him.

"What're you wearin', then?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.

"You'll see in a minute," she answered mysteriously. "Just sit with them until I come back."

It was more like five minutes, during which Judith chattered away about "Soopgirl" and candy, and the baby started to doze off in Daryl's arms.

He looked up when he heard Carol re-enter the room, and suppressed a laugh. Her face was covered in green makeup, which she'd paired with a set of sparkly antennae and a bright purple t-shirt.

"An alien? Really?"

She grinned and opened her mouth to respond, but was interrupted by the sound of the doorbell.

"That must be Eric!" she proclaimed, holding a hand out to Judith, who was staring at her odd getup like she didn't quite trust it. "You want candy?"

At the mention of the long-awaited candy, the little girl forgot her previous worries, latching onto the offered hand and tugging Carol into the hall. "Candy!"