The Great Pumpkins

Some­how Hal­loween has come & gone already.  

It was D-man’s first Hal­loween.  He seemed mostly inter­ested in the pump­kins, every­thing else did not impress him.  Granted we do a pretty tame Hal­loween, but still he barely bat­ted an eye until he got near freshly carved Jack O’Lanterns.

My first­born had to try to make his scarey & felt he needed hair it looks kinda like he drew a toupe on his guy.  And let’s be hon­est toupes can be down­right frightening. 

The other kids decided happy and au nat­u­rale was bet­ter.  And be real, au nat­u­rale puts a smile on lots of faces. Just remem­ber that Hal­loween pin up & how wide her Jack O’Lantern was smiling.

Then D-man noticed them lined and up and made a bee­line for them.

You can almost see him think­ing, “Hmmm…what’s this? Can I eat it?” The kid tries to eat every­thing right now, except any actual food we offer him. It’s like some cos­mic joke.

And then you see him real­ize that I’ve caught him on cam­era. He’s so busted, no sneak­ing a bite. I just love that “Who me??? I wasn’t doing any­thing.” look.

Over­all, every­one had a great Hal­loween night. Low key & spent with fam­ily, build­ing on our own lit­tle fam­ily traditions.   We went this year to the Detroit Zoo for a trick or treat walk. The zoo is cool at night, they dec­o­rate it with won­der­ful dis­plays and lights.

One of the big hits with the kid’s was this Where the Wild Things Are dis­play.  There’s King Max!

And there’s some­thing mys­te­ri­ous about being out after dark, walk­ing around while feel­ing the breeze & hear­ing the ani­mals rus­tle. Plus, there is candy & some of it is CHOCOLATE!! I would walk through wild ani­mals to get choco­late & really walk­ing with rav­en­ous kids who are excited to get candy on Hal­loween is kind of like that.

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