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ParentDish Size Six: Halloween Highlights
Filed under: Activities: Babies
Every Halloween is different and there are always great memories to be had, along with the calories. Here are six of my favorites from this past Halloween:
- Sara, hastily getting her costume on, calling out to random people walking by, "Wait for us! We're going with you!"
- We visited the couple across the street who invited Jared and Sara in to see their new kitties. Jared spent the next fifteen minutes trying to hold one of the cats while Sara tried to coax the other one out from under the couch. The next house we visited was the our neighbors with the little boy just a few months younger than Jared. They too had a cat and Sara just walked right in like she was at home and started playing with the cat. Thereafter, at every home we visited, she asked "Do you have a cat?" We had a lot of confused neighbors.
- Bridgette, a girl about Sara's age, came to the door with her older sister and walked right in like she owned the place. Sara didn't seem to mind. I enjoyed the older sister hissing at her to come back outside, obviously embarrassed. At least I know Sara's not the only one who does this sort of thing.
- One pre-teen girl was accompanied by Tulip, her rather large dog. When I commented that it looked more like a horse than a dog, the girl's father explained "It's a chihuahua in a doberman costume."
- At yet another neighbor's house, Sara asked "Where are you going to bed?" The accommodating neighbor pointed towards the top of the front of the house and told her they'd be sleeping in the bedroom up there. She then asked, "when it gets dark and the sky is black?"
- Sara, after I had sent her upstairs to get ready for bed, flying back downstairs, zooming past me, and running out on to the porch, buck nekkid, yelling "Who's here?" and waving to the startled parents standing on the sidewalk.
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11-02-2007 @ 11:27AM
Amanda said...after the trick or treating my daughter got a hold of one of those glow stick/bracelets and she snuck it into her bed. after about thirty minutes of playing with it, it busted and she was covered with bright blue glowing goop. She did manage to scare the living daylights out of me by sneaking into my room to try to sleep with me. I was terrified to see a small dark creature with big glowing dots approaching me out of the pitch black corner of my room. Needless to say I sucked all the air out of the room!
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11-02-2007 @ 12:37PM
Joy said...What's in that stuff Amanda?? I did laugh though and thought that was pretty funny. I wanted to add that my favorite of this year was I bowled a 219. That made my week.
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11-02-2007 @ 2:38PM
Ann Adams said...Nothing that will top yours although it was always fun to celebrate Halloween and Rebecca's birthday simultaneously.
She would tell everyone she passed that it was her birthday and always ended up with the most candy of the three.
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11-03-2007 @ 12:57PM
Uly said...Amanda's story rocks.
The best part for us was the JUICE. One of our neighbors offered halloween-themed juice to the baby instead of candy - and the two older ones went "We want juice too!", so they got juice. It was all they talked about on the way home, and the first thing they ate - they weren't even interested in the candy until the juice was gone!
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11-02-2007 @ 8:59PM
Messed Up Mama said...I think my favorite moments were when some tough young men, just a year or two too old for the trick or treating thing, notices that The Boy was wearing a Buzz Lightyear costume. Each time it happened the tough guy mask slipped a little, the little boys that used to be peeked out, they all smiled and said "Buzz Lightyear!" There were even a couple of "Goth" styled boys about 16 or so who stopped and talked to The Boy for a couple of moments. "Wow! Buzz Lightyear. Cool costume!"
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