Halloween ghoulies!!

Well, we had our first collection of candy this year and what a blast it was for Kota. For the first time he decided he wanted to do it and be a dragon. And Elli was a kitty. Was very cute for both of them. Grammy and Papi Seaver came from Rapid and made it just in time to go on the trek. We met up with some friends at their house and made a mob of it. We had a transformer (sorry not good with the name), Wolverine, a Lion, Dorothy from wizard of Oz, our Dragon and Kitty. Was a good time and it took a little while for Dakota to catch on but as soon as he learned about the candy he was all in. The house across the street from our friends had quite an amazing display. They had a guillotine with flowing blood and moaning guy, an old lady with her head spinning (must have kids), a cemetery with ghouls and about 10 grave markers, a black cat, a smoke machine, and the best was a flying witches head on a string. This thing flew all around the yard and at night you couldn't really tell that it was on a string so it looked like a REAL floating head. Pretty amazing. Needless to say when Dakota got to this house we grabbed hands and raced on past it. We were trying to teach him the rules, like don't go to the houses with lights turned out, stay on the sidewalk, eat some candy when mom and dad aren't looking so it looks like you don't have as much candy, you know the basics. After about 5 blocks, Dakota turns and looks at me and says, "Daddy, I have enough candy. I'm done." I think it took me several seconds to pick up my jaw and respond with, "What?" But sure enough we walked back to the car after saying goodbye and drove home. Happy. Shock. I looked in the pumpkin bucket after we got home and was surprised at how much candy 5 blocks will get you these days. Man, they must've been grabbing hand fulls. I guess if you fill up your pail faster then you can go home and play more. He was a perfect little dragon! I'm sure Grammy and Papi were happy because they had driven from Buffalo Wyoming that day and had to be exhausted.

I started wondering how Halloween came about. And what it teaches our children. It has to be confusing for them. Don't talk to strangers but here have some candy, in the dark, from a monster. It's just a strange holiday. Don't get me wrong I loved it and still do. I mean they got the candy and I get to eat it!! Now, I'm starting to see the benefits of this parenting thing. They should have dollar bill give a way day. Or Free money Monday. Or free fruit Friday. Or maybe we should just start our own holiday and call it Electromagnetica. and it'll be the 23 day of June. Parents will come knock on your door and you'll give them a CD player, or DVD player, or Computer, or surround sound system, or projector, or some other really use full gadget. And while were at it we should combine Halloween and Electromagnetica so that when you get the candy you can go to like Best Buy and use your candy as cash. Now were talking Holidays!!!! Anyway, was a great time walking a weird neighborhood getting candy from strangers. Can't wait until next year! peace.