Halloween is here and you know what that means, right? Yep, Uncle Ben gets his turn at the cake and spankings for his birthday. And there is this little tradition where little one dresses up and then loots the neighborhood with abandon.
It took Nicholas a bit to get into the swing of how this Halloween thing works…though his idea of trick-or-treat seems to be giving a shy smile to his intended donors…otherwise known as marks. But he figured it out quickly enough at the second house we visited (we were only visiting a few of Grammy’s neighbors that we knew), he was definitely into this gimme thing.
He was good enough at it that at one house, he had started working a steady stream of Reese’s cups into his plastic pumpkin, much to Daddy’s delight. Unfortunately, that gravy train came to a screeching halt after the second one hit the bottom of his bucket…and Daddy is still in tears about that. Well, not really. But Reese’s cups do rock… 🙂
By this time, we were pulling into PumpkinLand in front of Mr. Fitzpatrick’s house. Grammy and her neighbors tend to put on a heck of a show for various holidays and Mr. Fitzpatrick seems to be the king of them. There isn’t much of his front yard that didn’t have ghouls and ghosts and Daddy’s favorite, Witchypoo whose landing techniques needs a bit of work.
But the best treats of all are at Grammy’s house and Nicholas was pleased to get a nice battery operated car rather than the usual candy handouts (Grammy’s house is the house to hit…multiple times if you can get away with it!). 🙂
So the question is now, what will Nicholas dress as next year? Only the shadow knows… ;)P
