It's Halloween...

I love Halloween! What other holiday do you get to attack an innocent squash with a knife and go bug your neighbours for candy. I always enjoyed Halloween as a kid for obvious reasons - candy! As an adult I have enjoyed watching the neighbourhood kids come around and snacking on as much candy as I give out. Actually I get the chocolates 'cause I like them more.

This year has been so much more fun. The Little Man had a blast picking out a pumpkin with his best buddy a few weekends ago. Tonight we carved the the beast. I thought the Little Man would be all over gutting it. Nope. It was too goopy. He didn't want to get his hands messy. He was the supervisor of the carving. He told told Mom & Dad what to do and how they were doing it wrong.

He is asking for Halloween songs and once I start it's "more", "more", "more".

His favourites are:

5 Little Pumpkins sitting on a gate

The first one says 'Oh my it's getting late.'

The second one says 'There are witches in the air.'

The third one say 'But we don't care.'

The fourth one says 'Lets run and run and run.'

The fifth one says ' It's time for Halloween fun.'

Awhoooooooooooo went the wind

And out went the lights

And the five little pumpkins rolled out of sight

It's Halloween

The lamp is lit

Around the fire we children sit

Telling ghost stories bit by bit

'Till sister Jane says 'Hushhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh'

Who's that peeping around the bedroom door

Who's the creeping across the kitchen floor

Who's that screeching like their throat is sore

IT'S A GOBLIN 

There is a tiny window of your life when your childhood can blend with your kids'. Sharing your traditions and memories to help then make new ones. Both of these songs were my favourite as a kid and I love hearing the Little Man ask for them again and again. I have song the "Gaa-bin Ong" no less then 15 times in a row.

What's Halloween without treats?!?  Given that I have recently found Pintrest (that is another topic in and of itself) I decide to find something quick, easy yet fun for a Halloween party that I went to with the boys today. I found a recipe for 'Bones'. Small marshmallows on stick pretzels dipped in melted white chocolate. The Little Man keeps asking more 'More bone', but only easy the ends and leaves the pretzel part.

I have this thing that I really want to make the boys costumes. However in past years I had limited sewing skills, we are talking lucky to sew a straight line kind of skills, thus costumes were out. I have since leaned how to sew pants so the Littlest Man got pirate pants hand sewn by Mom. I had every intention to make a train out of cardboard boxes ect but my ambition and reality of available time for such an endeavour did not match. So we ordered him a train engineer costume on-line. It's kinda perfect for our little train lover!

I'm really looking forward to tomorrow night. Here's hoping the weather holds out or there will not be much trick-or-Treating, thus limited candy for me....errrrr I mean the Little Man.

Happy Halloween!