Halloween fun

Do you remember when you were a kid around Halloween? You were so excited you could barely contain yourself. Not only did it  mean dressing up as someone  or something completely different, but it also meant lots and lots of candy.

Excitement hung in the air as you prowled the neighborhood with all the other kids all dressed up in their costumes asking for candy. Then when you got home, you dumped your bag of stash onto the kitchen table and examined the loot.

Remember that?

I do, and I’m having a blast watching Little Man experience it too.

The town where we live during the school year has two opportunities to trick or treat. We can trick or treat at the downtown businesses from noon to 1:30pm. It’s a really quaint and charming downtown which adds to the fun. Then trick or treating resumes at night in the neighborhoods.

Little Miss Throwsafit sort of has an idea of what’s going on, but Little Man is simply over the moon. Not just for the candy, though. He loves all things haunted. He’s got this haunted house, ghost story thing going on where that’s all he’s interested in. When we drive somewhere and he sees a house that looks even remotely old and Victorian, he’ll immediately ask if it’s haunted.

My husband plays along and he and our son get to talking about what the inside might look like, what kinds of ghosts are haunting the house, and how they became ghosts.

What I particularly like about all this is that it’s fueling Little Man’s imagination. Just today after he got home from school, he took out a sheet of paper and drew a haunted house, of course, but then said he wanted to write a story about it.

He got as far as “One Halloween night, a young girl…”

The possibilities are endless.