We went to Southern California for our annual Halloween trip to the Christiansen household. It was also Kacy's birthday and we had a slumber party and stayed up until all hours of the morning. Somehow I don't recover as quickly as I did in my teens and 20's after a slumber party...hmmmm. We had a great trip, but traveling with a toddler is always challenging. By the time you check in, get through security and to the gate - you're exhausted. Grady has been quite the trooper this last month, as we've had a lot going on and he's been hanging in there. However, we have been getting reports from his school the last few weeks of attitude issues and we're working on those with a series of consequences. Wish us luck.
Grady was Scooby Dooby Doo, Jack was Young Darth Vader (I don't know the proper name) and Harry was Yoda (this was the greatest costume on him). The boys went to a neighborhood Halloween party and played games, broke a pinata and ate very creative Halloween food like hot dog mummies, peanut butter and jelly headstone sandwiches, spider deviled eggs, blood punch, etc. By the time we went trick-or-treating the kids were ready to go. The first year we went Grady didn't quite know what to do. He knocked on the first door and when they opened it up, he just walked right on in. The second year he knew what was about to happen and went from door-to-door asking "Trick or Treat" and admiring all his loot in his pumpkin basket. This year was a whole new game for him, as he ran from house-to-house yelling trick-or-treat and then running down the street and advising the pack lagging behind that "there's no light on, we're going to keep going to the next house!". The most memorable moment for me was when he went up to one door and she was handing out full-size Snickers bars. Grady turned around and said "I got a Whooooo-Hooooooo Bar Mom!" and bounced down the driveway. She asked me if he said he had to go poo? I'm not sure how it was lost in translation, but it was really funny.
Next year Grady will be in kindergarten and we'll most likely be home. I haven't had a trick-or-treater in the last six years out here on the coast. We are isolated and there are not many children, so that's why we've always gone to Kacy's house to share the day with her boys. We will miss it, but know that every year holds something new and fun for him. Depending on where we send him to school, I'm sure we will find a new Halloween tradition. Halloween is actually my favorite holiday with him - just dressing up, pretending and getting candy that he doesn't really want to eat has been great (he opted for dessert this year instead of any candy).
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