I think while Big P and I appreciate the month of October for the sheer beauty of it, the kids see it as the prelude to one of their favorite holidays - HALLOWEEN. The entire month of October, and probably a good chunk of September, is devoted to constant chatter about Trick or Treating and ghoulish costumes and lots of low whispers that they think I cannot hear, about what they would like to do if someone denied them candy and they indeed were allowed to "Trick".
Usually we have the house decorated around the beginning of the month – mostly spider webs strung across the mirror in the dining room and around the dining room light fixture, as well as some paper cut outs on the windows, and fun little bits and pieces here and there. Outside we hang skeletons and witches and ghosts from the trees. But this year I have been terribly disorganized and finally last weekend we got out the Halloween box and began to decorate. In the box we found our old Halloween CD - every year the kids play it constantly until the 31st and so Ghostbusters, Purple People Eater and Monster in the Tub and such are the soundtrack to Halloween in this Household. JJ both loves and is terrified of Halloween simultaneously. He loves the CD but there are two tracks on it that he just cannot listen to and has to leave the room. Rocky, however takes it all in his stride and gives me a sarcastic smirk when his brother rushes out of the room. Bubs, on the other hand doesn’t pay too much attention to the music at all, since his attention is usually focused solely on implementing his important daily secret missions, of which there are many. Some of these include inserting puzzle pieces and crackers into the DVD with laser like precision and speed, or seeing how many DVD’s he can jam into the VCR slot before his mother comes flying across the room at him (he has a tendency to turn stone deaf while completing said missions). Or, grabbing a container full of his brother’s markers and writing on the walls with them. I must say, though, that although he writes on the walls, that is not his intention. A little while ago Big P and I taped a sheet of paper on the dining room wall so we could jot down some notes and goals (obviously, we still have “Buy a Corkboard” on our list of things to do), so the Bubs sees us writing on this paper on the wall, and simply wants to add his two cents.
Anyhow, I digress, with Halloween less than a week away, the kids are amping up for the Big Day. On Sunday we carved pumpkins, so at least we can tick that off the list. It was a cold and breezy fall afternoon and for some reason we decided to do our pumpkin carving outdoors. The boys drew their faces on the pumpkins and then quickly retreated inside, leaving Big P and I outside to carve the things. Oh, and of course, Bubs wasn’t about to go inside. He had not yet completed his in-depth inspection of every toy and structure on the property. I don’t know why we stayed outside to finish the job, but we sat out there freezing our butts off, while carving out the intricate designs. We did have a few good laughs while we were at it, however. I wanted my jack o lantern to look friendly and fun and Big P wanted his to look terrifyingly scary. Ironically, mine came out looking quite frightful and Big P’s looking quite happy. It was almost as if our personalities possessed us and came through on the pumpkins… hmmm.
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