Spooky chaos
Halloween on a Monday? And after a week of half term in which I did lots of exciting things with the kids and when I asked daughter one what she had told her friends about half term she said she had told them she "did nothing much, just chilled out" Huh! I took them to Cambridge one day to learn about polar expeditions, to an adventure playground another day, created an indoor cinema on the Tuesday, visited friends, went for a family lunch and basically turned myself inside out.
Plus I spent much of the weekend preparing Halloween costumes for four children. Daughter one had wanted to be a corpse bride based on having caught sight of a corset someone donated to me a while back. However, said corset has disappeared off the face of the earth and even with my maternal tracking powers [I have suddenly developed extraordinary finding powers since becoming a mother] I was unable to locate it, although I did find a lot of hair bobble thingies along the way [we must have thousands in our house and I can never ever find one at the appropriate time].
Fortunately, we had purchased a spider veil and skirt thing [unfortunately, it was for 3-5 year olds, but it stretched] which we could adapt for a corpse bride and my wardrobe is fairly packed with black stuff. Daughters two and three were witches. Daughter two, of course, was rather overenthusiastic with the green facepaint, fake eyelashes, fake black nails and fake blood. Daughter three was a very organised witch. She had her costume all laid out days in advance and only required a broomstick. Daughter three loves Halloween as it is entirely sweet-focused. The baby didn't have much choice in the matter. He was down as a vampire mouse, which meant sewing a tail on a jumpsuit and lots of facepaint.
The day did not begin well. The baby started off by splashing his rice crispies all over the walls and then proceeded to get hold of a yoghurt drink, pour it onto a plate and splatter it all over the tv screen. He then rolled himself into a ball of protest when daughter two attempted to paint mouse ears and whiskers on his face [he doesn't tolerate any head gear]. We left for school and his nursery Halloween party with his face all smeared with black paint and fake blood. The girls' head teacher looked slightly appalled.
Trick or treating went fairly well - the vampire mouse stamped his feet in delight to get his very own sweeties. Daughters two and three had been inspired by the local Halloween house [some of our neighbours go all out for Halloween] and decided to put "cobwebs" outside the front door. Only we haven't got any fake cobweb stuff [I suggested using the real ones - a result of my "environmentally sound" no dusting policy] so they cut open some old teddies and started sticking the contents to the door with flour and water paste. I have to admit it looked pretty good. Not sure what the long-term effects might be after the rain, though. We ended the evening with a round of bobbing for apples. Daughter two was rather too good at it, which left daughter three somewhat upset. So tonight we are doing round two, but this time with Haribo. I think she may be rather more motivated this time round.
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