Halloween Trick-or-Treating 2006

Trick-or-Treat night finally came for two anxious kids. Each year Courtney and Trevor spend the months of August, September and October planning what they will dress as for Halloween.

This year Courtney decided it would be fun for her and three of her best friends to dress as witches. Each girl chose a color to accent their costume and then embellished a plain black witch costume with lots of fun details in their chosen color. Courtney picked green.

She had already committed to this idea when Jeff and I were in NYC in September for a weekend getaway. We saw "Wicked" while we were there...spectacular show! I was so nuts about the show that I convinced Jeff that we needed to go to "Wicked: Behind the Curtain" the next morning. It too was just fantastic. I asked one of the actors where to go to find great trims for costumes and he gave us the exact blocks to hit in NYC's Garmet District. We came home with a bag full of fab. stuff for Courtney's costume. She and I had a blast working on it!

Trevor too had a lot of opinions about his costume this year. Gone are the days when I can pick out a cute idea and sell him on it. He wanted the absolute scariest, bloodiest, creepiest costume he could find. I said "no way" to almost every mask and prop he begged for. Finally, I consented to his idea of a black cape and a scary mask. I made a cape with a bat lined purple lining and bought him a mask that looked like a skeleton. He hated the mask. He said it was too cute. He used his own money to buy a "cool" one. On Halloween night people kept asking him what he was. He wasn't sure what to say. I told him to tell them he was a "creep". Yes, my mothering skills were shining brightly that evening.

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October Fun 2006

We had a fun October. It is one of the nicest months in Georgia! One Saturday we drove up to the Stone Mountain Park to see the lazer light show. We went up a little early so that we could spend some daylihgt hours enjoying the park. There were decorations everywhere and the kids had a great time playing in the Boys V.S. Girls Treehouse.

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Trunk-or-Treating

After the big swim meet: Pumpkin Wars, Courtney's team put on a Halloween event called "Trunk-or-Treat". Each family decorated their trunks with Halloween props and a big bowl of candy, of course. The kids then put on their costumes and went from car to car.

We used an idea out of Family Fun Magazine and made a funky skeleton out of pvc pipes. We added a swim cap and goggles to dress him properly for the event. he even had a stemmed glass full of spiders to quench his thirst. We got a spooky sounds and music CD so that our trunk was a real party!

I'd say it was more fun than traditional trick-or treating. I heard on the radio a few days after our event that "trunk-or treats" (shouldn't it be trunks-and-treats?) are really catching on all over the country and some think this form of Halloween celebrating may eventually replace going door to door. That would be okay with me. This was a blast. We had costume contests, pizza for everyone, it was great. Another plus was that it was so safe!

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