halloween 2007

Halloween 2007: The kids had a wonderful time on Halloween this year. Chloe dressed up as Princess Belle from Beauty and the Beast, and Alex dressed as Buzz Lightyear from Disney’s movie “Toy Story”, Casey wore “tattoo sleeves” and a bandanna on his head (the only bandannas I could find around here were bright pink, or rainbow with unicorns and Casey was a good sport and decided rainbows were manly enough), and I was a mummy (the kids are sick of me painting their faces, so I had to paint my own). The kids were both excited to go trick-or-treating and Chloe told me she wanted to go to 55 houses and I said “how about 15?” and she decided that was ok (I’m pretty sure she doesn’t know how much bigger 55 is than 15). When it was finally time, the kids ran up to the door of the first house and said trick-or-treat and got their candy and as we were walking to the door of the second house Alex said “I LOVE this!” and kissed my hand that he was holding. We made the kids hold our hands in the street (our neighborhood doesn't have sidewalks) and when they got to each driveway they ran all the way up to the door and knocked incessantly (I kept saying “that’s enough knocking, they heard you”). Last year Alex lagged behind the whole time as he gazed around and took everything in, and this year he was much more confident and assertive. The highlight of Chloe’s evening was when we went to the house of a neighbor who got really into the Halloween spirit and they had spooky music and the person giving out candy had a scary witch latex mask. Chloe said “I’m not afraid!” and marched right up and talked to the scary witch. Afterwards Chloe said “She’s not really a witch, it’s just a costume. I talked to her and now she’s my friend.” And then Chloe repeated the story several more times because she was so proud of herself for being brave. All told we only went to about 17 houses (Chloe and I counted to make sure we got at least 15) before Chloe said she was ready to go home. At home we checked that their candy was safe and let them eat as much as they could while watching a half hour cartoon. I’m usually a stickler about limiting their sugar intake so Casey kept saying “Are you sure they can eat this much candy?” and “Have you seen how much they are eating?” I just love Halloween and no one got sick, so all’s well that end well.