Halloween!
One of my friends tells a story that I hope will be funny in the written form . . . . His family went down to Mexico right after Halloween. The Mexican kids didn’t really understand the holiday very much, but they did understand that there were masks and candy involved. So as my friend and his family were walking around the square shopping, the kids would come up to them and hold a mask up in front of their faces and scream, Halloween! (Said in a high pitched voice with a Spanish accent) It’s very funny when he tells the story.
Of course here in the states ALL the kids understand the holiday and the dressing up and the door to door candy retrieval process. This was our first Halloween in our new neighborhood so Amber and I were really excited about taking Tristan around to our neighbors, knocking on the their doors, saying, “trick or treat”, getting candy and then consuming said candy that night at the house.
Halloween started in the afternoon for Tristan. His daycare friends got all gussied up and had a little party. They even got to practice their trick or treating across the street. You can see a photo below of Tristan and his friend Cash. Tristan is the Dragon and Cash is a peanut, which was the cutest costume. It really fit Cash, he looked so adorable and I can see the photo of Cash dressed up like a peanut in the PowerPoint presentation at his rehearsal dinner.
This year we had ALL the cousins over to the house for Halloween. This included Nicole and her kids along with Jennifer and her family. Also in attendance were Chris and Karin and Joel and Daniel and little Mattie, who was having her first Halloween. My parents were there along with Luis’ mom, who is in charge of candy distribution while all the kids and parents walk the hood.
Tristan made it to about 5 houses before he decided that he was done with the costume so I took him back to the house, put him in something comfortable, strapped him in the jogging stroller, grabbed a fresh margarita and we took off again to catch up with Andrew and Damek.
This was the first year that I think that Damek really got into the whole trick or treating thing. Now Andrew is a seasoned veteran. He hasn’t come up with the idea of having two costumes and hitting each house twice, but I have a feeling that we are only a year or two away from that revelation. Andrew lives for Halloween and much like his uncle, he has no reservations about knocking on some random door and requesting his fair share of candied items. Like any great protégé, Damek fell in line with Andrews’s example and I think between the two of them they had at least 20 to 30 pounds of candy. At one point Karin and I had to carry Damek’s candy bucket because he couldn’t keep up with Andrew.
I think we only missed one street in our neighborhood, but then again it’s not that big so don’t think that we kept those kids up too late. I think that Andrew would have been more than happy to hit that last row, but it was getting late and it was a school night.
We headed back to the house and there was definitely a much more somber mood in the house, post trick or treating. The kids were winding down and we had to keep close tabs on candy consumption. Actually, I like Nicole’s approach to trick or treating. Basically Damek is her candy “mule” and just does the leg work and then Nicole does the consuming . . . It’s a good system, if you like sweets . . . which I don’t. But if the houses gave out bottles of wine, it would work PERFECT!
One of my friends tells a story that I hope will be funny in the written form . . . . His family went down to Mexico right after Halloween. The Mexican kids didn’t really understand the holiday very much, but they did understand that there were masks and candy involved. So as my friend and his family were walking around the square shopping, the kids would come up to them and hold a mask up in front of their faces and scream, Halloween! (Said in a high pitched voice with a Spanish accent) It’s very funny when he tells the story.
Of course here in the states ALL the kids understand the holiday and the dressing up and the door to door candy retrieval process. This was our first Halloween in our new neighborhood so Amber and I were really excited about taking Tristan around to our neighbors, knocking on the their doors, saying, “trick or treat”, getting candy and then consuming said candy that night at the house.
Halloween started in the afternoon for Tristan. His daycare friends got all gussied up and had a little party. They even got to practice their trick or treating across the street. You can see a photo below of Tristan and his friend Cash. Tristan is the Dragon and Cash is a peanut, which was the cutest costume. It really fit Cash, he looked so adorable and I can see the photo of Cash dressed up like a peanut in the PowerPoint presentation at his rehearsal dinner.
This year we had ALL the cousins over to the house for Halloween. This included Nicole and her kids along with Jennifer and her family. Also in attendance were Chris and Karin and Joel and Daniel and little Mattie, who was having her first Halloween. My parents were there along with Luis’ mom, who is in charge of candy distribution while all the kids and parents walk the hood.
Tristan made it to about 5 houses before he decided that he was done with the costume so I took him back to the house, put him in something comfortable, strapped him in the jogging stroller, grabbed a fresh margarita and we took off again to catch up with Andrew and Damek.
This was the first year that I think that Damek really got into the whole trick or treating thing. Now Andrew is a seasoned veteran. He hasn’t come up with the idea of having two costumes and hitting each house twice, but I have a feeling that we are only a year or two away from that revelation. Andrew lives for Halloween and much like his uncle, he has no reservations about knocking on some random door and requesting his fair share of candied items. Like any great protégé, Damek fell in line with Andrews’s example and I think between the two of them they had at least 20 to 30 pounds of candy. At one point Karin and I had to carry Damek’s candy bucket because he couldn’t keep up with Andrew.
I think we only missed one street in our neighborhood, but then again it’s not that big so don’t think that we kept those kids up too late. I think that Andrew would have been more than happy to hit that last row, but it was getting late and it was a school night.
We headed back to the house and there was definitely a much more somber mood in the house, post trick or treating. The kids were winding down and we had to keep close tabs on candy consumption. Actually, I like Nicole’s approach to trick or treating. Basically Damek is her candy “mule” and just does the leg work and then Nicole does the consuming . . . It’s a good system, if you like sweets . . . which I don’t. But if the houses gave out bottles of wine, it would work PERFECT!
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