A group of neighborhood kids in Woodhaven went out for a normal night of trick-or-treating on Halloween, but when they saw a sign that a boy was hospitalized and would not be going out for Halloween, rather than take home all those treats for themselves, they stopped to share their treats with the boy who they said needed them more.
"It's overwhelming, all the love we've got… and I don't know half these people," said Amy.
Amy Schmitt and her son love to dress up and hand out candy on Halloween, but they weren't able to do that this year because they were at the hospital.
After a medical emergency that landed her son in the hospital, a few neighborhood kids were so sweet to think of him.
Amy didn't want the neighborhood kids to be disappointed, so she left a note.
"I left a note just saying my son is in the hospital, we don't have any candy. Sorry," she said.
Then there were notifications from the doorbell camera that movement was detected.
"And tons and tons of kids are dumping baskets of candy out," said Amy.
It was the sweetest surprise for Amy and her son Jacob.
6-year-old Mia was one of the kids who left candy for Jacob.
"When she was done with her first lap, she wanted to sit down, so we were sitting at the house and she goes 'dad can we go out again?' And I go 'sure we can go out again.' All of the candy she collected the second time, she goes, 'I don't want this candy, I want to leave it here," said Mia's father, James Sayen.
James says his daughter's decision to leave Jacob candy was completely her own and he was so impressed by it.
"She felt bad and didn't want anybody not to have candy on Halloween," said James.
Amy says the parents of these kids deserve some credit for raising such kind young people.
"It's just amazing ... what these parents have raised these kids to be," said Amy. "To do that without your parents there is remarkable."
Amy says she and Jacob are so thankful for their kind neighbors.
"It was just so thoughtful going beyond that extra mile for somebody," she said.
Source: WXYZ
