Well, last night was Halloween, our first in Canada. Here in PoCo the locals do it old style, sending the kids out in the dark to extort candy from strangers barricaded in their homes. For our part, we sent out a Batgirl and a Spiderman.
Batgirl was about a 50/50 bought to invented costume by Faith and M. A batman mask and cape was used, then black clothes, boots from the Lulu Libby collection were topped off with construction paper appliques of the batman logo in cusstomary yellow. Very stylish.
Spiderman was more a performance art piece than simply a costume. Worn for the past three weeks or so at every opportunity, the costume was infused with the spirit of a three-year-old in the thrall of the awesomeness that is Trick-or-Treating.
M took the kids out for the rounds while I manned the fort. We had 100 kids in about a hour and a half. All of them typically Canadian, with virtually all of them saying “Thank you” after getting their candy. That creeped me out more than the cosstumes. It was like Village of The Damned, only instead of all the kids being blonde, they were all polite. I ran out of candy after a hour an 15 minutes and had to turn off the lights, lock the door and hide for another hour until the roving bands died down to a trickle.
M and the kids went with friends and came back with two full bags of candy. Roan was so tired he crashed out immediately, with Faith not far behind him.
Next up: Christmas. With Canadian Thanksgiving happening on US Columbus Day, there isn’t the usual safety barrer of an intervening holiday between Halloween and the Christmas onslaught. So gone is any hope I might ahve of staving off the need for decision making around gifting.
Embracing my fate today, we have spent the morning making snowman decorations for the house, which M has spruced up nicely, and taking down the Halloween decorations for another year.
batgirl and spiderboy
