Neighbors and businesses owners ask my children: "What are you going to be on Halloween?" We look forward to seeing you this year. We remember the year you were: a lion, giraffe, firefighter & now this year a "pirate." So we enjoy the season & spend quite a bit of time preparing for the big day.
This year was the year that my boys chose to be pirates. They have had only very little exposure to pirates as we do not watch television or movies with the boys yet. We also have very few books about pirates. Yet they have picked up on the basics that they: ride boats, have treasure maps, and are sometimes mysterious. Thankfully at this point they don't know that they were often sword wielding fighters.
In any case their costume was rather benign...and it changed daily until it was actually Halloween. Basically the boys costume included a black cape that I made for each of them out of fleece and masks that they had made at preschool. It was homemade and rather simple, but left lots of room for creativity. That is my goal with Halloween: to inspire creative fun.
Anyways, even though it was slightly raining the family headed out for the community trick or treating. It was like a river of people- flowing in a circle over about six blocks. We covered four of them and were already asked by folks why we didn't stop by. Truthfully, we already had 100 % more candy than we needed and our costumes were starting to feel ragged. We also wanted to stop by some neighbors' hmes. We hit just one & then exhaustion hit. We needed to get home and give "crow", S's stuffed animal his candy. We agreed the candy was not for the boys to eat. But, that brings up the question: is there a way to transform this holiday so that it is not surrounded by artificial flavors, high fructose and hydrogenated oils?
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