Halloween
Halloween has come and gone. The loot has been categorized into various zip lock bags and put into deep freeze for behavior based distribution. The kids had a month of various Halloween activities: Netflix provided movies, Carol provided the arts and crafts and I provided labor for scooping out pumpkin guts. Costume selection happened about a month ago and the kids are already planning what they want to be for next year. The costumes were fun. Jacob was Ninja, Isaac was a Special Ops Soldier, Piper was Silvermist and Violet was Ariel. The all looked great and the got to pick their own costumes – thank you Internet Gods for not making us drive all over creation looking for the perfect costume.
The night before the neighborhood had its annual fall party, complete with food, beer, sweets, and crazy kids in costumes running in circles. The girls hovered around us for most of the night – Violet became a chili critic, particularly interested in the variety requiring Fritos for flavor – once she found the Fritos there was no stopping her. She had a little dixie cup that held about ten little chips and refills were often. Piper was tired. We had already had a filling day so she just hung out and laid on our shoulders. The boys on the other hand had energy to burn. They met a few other kids from the neighborhood and ran off to play, occasionally checking back in – good boys. We missed the beer, the tiny little thing they called a keg, ran out long before we arrived, but we did get to taste all the chili in the cook-off. Normally only two or three people bring a pot. This year there were ten or so and most of them were pretty darn good – mostly sweet and not spicy but still good.
Halloween day the kids carved their pumpkins and set them out. This was fun. Carol has this set of carving tools that made the process easy and less dangerous for them all – no razor sharp knives to cut off little fingers. The drew their own scary designs and we helped them as needed to carve out their monstrous creations.
The boy’s friend Ben came over to trick or treat with us – two ninjas, a commando, and 2 fairy princesses – not to mention Carol had on a cape. We headed out just after sunset and realized very quickly, within two or three houses, that we should have left earlier. It was dark before we knew it – muhahahahah !!! The kids had a blast. We went door to door, most had their lights on, some didn’t, all provided goodies – there was one house that was giving away hard plastic dinosaurs vs. candy – fantastic score as they run about five bucks a pop at target. We hit about half the neighborhood and headed home to get out of the cold drizzle and away from all of the uphill driveways.
After a short break at the house we spent the rest of the night over at Troy and Bonnie’s. Bonnie had this costume that I put on hoping to scare anyone that came to the door. Unfortunately I didn’t get the opportunity but the thing was creepy – even Violet thought so, telling Carol at one point: “Mommy Carol, I don’t like this part”
The night was a lot of fun. Everyone crashed hard.
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