Halloween

Ghost, goblins, vampires, witches, and Tele Tubbies? I remember when I was young all the different costumes you could get. It is that time of year again! There are always the stores, halloween stores, that pop up at this time of year selling costumes, accessories, and motion activated items to scare us. Our little city has two of these stores and yesterday we (me and the kids) went to both. 

The first one we ventured to was Spirit Halloween. My son, who just turned 3 at the end of August, can finally grasp what is going on. We started at the kids section and I tried to get him interested in the Toy Story items, but he was not having it. We went through every section and then got toward the motion stuff. Now this stuff is getting more and more realistic each year. We got to the edge and the first items were severed arms, legs, and hands. He jumped back for a minute and processed what was going on. He wouldn't move... I said, "Come on," and he wouldn't budge! I picked him up and started down through the aisle. There was a life size Freddie, Jason, and Pinhead, and he was kinda scared of each at first, but then realized I kept pushing a button that made them talk and move.

Now knowing some of this stuff was fake, I believe anyway, we got to the display of a tombstone. There was a wire running from the tombstone through a gothic gate barrier to a pad that said, "Step Here." I told Jobie, "Step right here," motioning to the little pad. He runs with excitement and jumps on the pad. He then was startled as the tombstone began shaking and evil laughs bellowed forth. He paused at first and then as the tombstone raised began running away. He would stop and look, then run, stop and look, then run. He was scared I believe, but interested as well. Finally behind the tombstone was the Crypt Keeper. He stopped. Balled both fists up and proclaimed, "YOU WANT TO FIGHT!," and charged at the display!

It was at that moment he over came the fears and realized that the whole store had fake items. He then proceeded back through playing with items that he was avoiding before. We purchased 3 needle pens and a army helmet.

We went to the second store called Halloween City. More costumes and less decorations. We scoured the store for costumes. Jobie found a Jengo Fett costume and ran to the front of the store saying, "Gotta checkout! Gotta Checkout!" I was trying to tell him that we had to wait on his sisters and he didn't want to. I finally convinced him otherwise and we waited on the girls. We were headed to the front and the prized Jango Fett costume lost out to a Transformer costume.

The joys of having to decide on a costume and changing your mind over and over and over. Happy Halloween everyone!