Halloween

This was a Halloween full of firsts for us all. This was the first year we have taken Kiernan trick-or-treating and the first year I have carved a pumpkin - EVER.

As we don't live in the city, people don't trick-or-treat out here. Usually daycare has this thing where they take the kids through the building and they visit the offices upstairs for trick or treating and then do some sort of parade type thing through the school rooms. I never gave it a second thought. This year though, I thought maybe we should try trick-or-treating and see how it goes. No Halloween is complete without a jack-o-lantern, so we planned to carve a pumpkin as well. A couple weeks ago we went to a local pumpkin patch and got a pumpkin while we were there as part of the entry fee.

In an effort to make Kiernan feel involved, I let him scoop the pumpkin out. The rest was pretty boring for him really. We got one of those pumpkin masters kits and I let him choose the design. He settled on a bat design with lots of small openings, but I hesitantly agreed. It took about 40 minutes, but this was the end result. Not bad if I do say so myself.

I called a friend who lives in town and asked if we could tag along for trick-or-treating. Kiernan was a tiger this year. I seem to sense a theme here. Year one - a lion; year two - a dragon; year three - a tiger (his choice not mine).

At first Kiernan didn't want to wear his costume at all. He had already refused to wear it at school even though all his classmates were dressed up. It was a fight to get it on him that night too. He complained repeatedly until we began the door-to-door knocking. At first he was unsure and shy about it, but as the night wore on he got the hang of it, running up to the doors and ringing doorbells.

I'm sure the three of us were quite the site to behold. As I was barely able to convince Kiernan to wear his costume, I certainly wasn't going to push him to wear the head piece and gloves. So Beosig donned the tiger head and I wore the gloves on my hands.

I wish I had my camera with me because some of those decorations were excellent at the houses we visited. There were a number of them that got these eyes that lit up and blinked and made sounds and tied them into their bushes. It made it look like you were being watched as you walked up the driveway. Neat. Then there was one house that had a giant black spider that was all lit up with green and pink lights and the legs very slowly moved. That freaked Kiernan out a bit and it took some coaxing to get him to go past it.

All in all, a pretty good day, with the added bonus of a ton of candy-booty for Kiernan.