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Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Halloween

I adore Halloween, but the kids almost had me dreading it. That's not quite true, I dread the week leading up to the holiday. Kai and Rowan were so preoccupied with the thought of Trick-or-Treating, they couldn't seem to focus, listen or process any information other than the remain number of hours before they put on their costumes and extorted sugar from the neighbors.



We survived and all that remains is to work through the three moderately sized bags of candy. I hear horror stories about hyperglycemic kids the day after Halloween, but comparatively, my kids are much calmer now that the anticipation is over.




Jasmine seemed to enjoy riding around on my shoulders going from house to house and listening to the neighborhood kids running from lit house to lit house. It wasn't till she got home that I think she realized she was wearing something more than a coat. She discovered she had a tail when playing with her shadow and that kept her busy for another hour after we got home.



I think it did all finally catch up to Rowan. He crashed on the couch about an hour before his bedtime.

2 comments:

Hypatia said...

Hey Matt! He was actually Peter Pan, but it was cold enough, I had him wear extra layers under his costume. Maybe Robin Hood is just an older, socially conscious Peter Pan.

The banana? Well, I'm the meanest mommy on the planet.

Hypatia said...

*laughs*

I think that if the only attacks on my motherhood involve a little forced nutrition wedged between refined sugar blocks of Halloween, I'll feel quite happy and successful.