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<p>I wear that outfit everyday! ;)</p>
<p>LOL DrDRewsmom!</p>
<p>Alumom: The ghost was the anomaly for my D. Other times, she was a sunflower, a butterfly, a tiger, a Killer tomato, etc. etc. Never human.</p>
<p>My S couldn’t’ve been any more cliche “guy costumes,” though: pirate, cowboy, train engineer, ninja (multiple times), Civil War soldier, etc. Definitely less time consuming, if not so imaginative!</p>
<p>I love the ninja multiple times. A boy who knows what he wants…</p>
<p>Sybbie, I’m almost afraid to ask what goes on in the village for this parade but imagine my D had fun. My kids have seen “parades” in Provincetown, MA (not for Halloween) but involving costumes and well, that was always quite a scene too. My D who now is in NYC, when little, called all the drag people in the parade “man girls”. </p>
<p>TheDad, I hadn’t thought of the two girls with the handcuffs with the boy until you mentioned it. Naughty naughty. Funny thing is, the boy, who is from CA, is someone I knew online on CC last year on the MT Forum who ironically met my daughter (is in her musical theater program) and has become one of her better friends. </p>
<p>As far as the candy goes…for my kids, it was more about getting out in the costumes and seeing the other kids’ costumes. It was more the activity than the candy. Every year, they’d get the candy from trick or treating in these Halloween buckets and it would sit all year on the counter and they had very little of it and then before we knew it, next Halloween would roll around and we’d have to empty the old candy to make room for the new. They really were not that into eating the candy after the initial night. </p>
<p>Alumother, I have a Peter Pan costume too as my D played Peter on stage but wasn’t that for Halloween (now wouldn’t it have been easy to use some of our theater costumes for Halloween? No, too easy). I have some interesting home made costumes in the basement right now from Halloweens past…a dollar bill, a Pog, a Jack in the Box, a Pencil, a wizard, among others. In the earliest years, there were the bought variety like Minnie Mouse, Belle (in Beauty and Beast), Dorothy (in Wizard of Oz), Baby Bop (from Barney). After the little kid stage, they wanted more unique ones and these costumes were a labor of love. </p>
<p>Susan</p>
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Me too! Although I did get to hold a friend’s 4 month old last night – it’s not quite the same, though.</p>
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<p>I think that’s what grandchildren are for. We just have to wait. :(</p>
<p>I dont expect grandchildren- so I am getting my baby fix from teh cuties in the neighborhood
Great fun seeing them dressed up last night- although the dog was having a cow.
Everytime I opened the door she ran out- it was so exciting for her- so many kids coming to our door- but she didn’t know why they left so quickly?</p>
<p>Ah, my dog knows. They left so quickly because he bravely scared them away with his hysterical barking–and he’s pretty proud of himself today!</p>
<p>(Just like he successfully makes the mail carrier leave day after day.)</p>
<p>mine didn’t want them to leave
she even went and got her flingy thing for the kids to throw.
:)</p>
<p>My DS was a pumpkin 5 years in a row - with the same pumpkin poncho and little hat someone gave us. Sigh! Not very original, but so easy to put on! I wish he was little enough to wear it again…</p>
<p>"So, here we sit with a jack o lantern nobody saw, candy we should not eat ourselves, no kids, a basement full of homemade costumes, and memories. Those Halloween days are over for us. </p>
<p>I bequeth them to Momsdream, LOL"</p>
<p>Send 'em over Sooz. I figure I’ve got about 5 more to go. </p>
<p>And I know what you all mean about the chubby toddlers. We had a chubby/fuzzy “Pooh Bear” with us last night. Don’t you just want to pick them up and squeeze?</p>
<p>I had a couple of cute little boys come to my door on Monday night and I said “Oh Darth Vader and a Power Ranger!” The older boy, Vader, said, “He’s not a power ranger, he’s a fantastic four!”. I apologised and added, “My kids are grown now so I’m a little stupid about these things.” The little then piped up, “You sure are!!”. I laughed so hard.</p>
<p>Later that night my HS senior was taking over door duty and gave a little boy his Hersey’s candy bar. He said, “I hate Hersey’s”. My daughter told him, “I suggest you wait until people close the door before you complain!”. Funny.</p>
<p>Hersey’s candy bar. He said, “I hate Hersey’s”. My daughter told him, “I suggest you wait until people close the door before you complain!”. Funny.</p>
<p>I hate hersheys too
I used to be able to eat at least a Mr goodbar every once in a while- but now with all the organic chocolate like Equal Exchange and Dagoba
Hersheys isnt even worth eating- spoiled methinks
<a href=“Hersheyland | Explore Hershey Products, Recipes, Crafts & More”>Hersheyland | Explore Hershey Products, Recipes, Crafts & More;
( I really like the one with chilies)</p>
<p>emeralkity now you are going to get us all thinking about Chocolate! Haven’t heard of either of those but I am going to look. Must be PMS.</p>
<p>a teacher of my daughters used to bring dark chocolate on state testing days for the students-
swore it helped them concentrate
<a href=“http://recipestoday.com/resources/articles/brainfood.htm[/url]”>http://recipestoday.com/resources/articles/brainfood.htm</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://www.webmd.com/content/article/88/99702.htm[/url]”>http://www.webmd.com/content/article/88/99702.htm</a></p>
<p>Great links, EK4! I’m interested in the effects of diet on learning and behavior, and have done some reading lately about fish oil and omega 3 fatty acids. But I’d much prefer chocolate!</p>
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<p>We’re in a similar house/neighborhood situation. We had two kids last year but this year we had a mob scene: 12 kids came to the door over the course of the evening. I think the reason we had so many (:)) is that for once we did not have the worst weather of the year on Halloween night. It almost always snows (a lot!) on Halloween. This year the snow arrived a day early, but it was relatively cleared up (and a little warmer) by Monday evening.</p>
<p>We have had a tradition of pulling out the sofa-bed and watching the movie “The Witches” on Halloween night. This year, my wife and I watched it alone. I told my son - via IM - that I was getting kind of bored with that movie seeing it year-after-year, but he IM’d back and said that he missed watching it with us. Sniff…</p>
<p>I always did dislike the pumpkin-carving part, though, and this year I did not do any since I had the excuse that he was off at college and we wouldn’t see too many kids anyway.</p>
<p>Halloween when you have little kids: </p>
<p>*Cool Halloween decorations are on the front porch and in the yard no later than the second weekend of October.</p>
<p>*Start thinking about costumes in August.</p>
<p>*Plan Halloween Night food, e.g. World Famous chili recipe that takes 3 days to cook </p>
<p>*Happy to sign up for class Halloween party and don’t mind being in a stuffy classroom with 30 second graders, 12 bottles of decorative sprinkles, and 10 cans of Duncan Hines frosting.</p>
<p>*Candy corn and Red Hots do not make you hurl.</p>
<p>*You buy more than one pumpkin before October 31st.</p>
<p>*Pumpkin carving is a family event, and everyone participates. </p>
<p>*Children use safe carving tools. Designs are carefully drawn on the pumpkin before carving. </p>
<p>*At least one Jack-o-lantern has a cheerful expression.</p>
<p>*Children are in costumes and ready to go Trick-Or-Treating
by 5 p.m. Contented children are back by 9 p.m., happily sorting out their loot. </p>
<p>Halloween when you’re the parent of teenagers:</p>
<p>*Don’t even bother to ask if they’re going Trick-Or-Treating. Prepare to be scowled at, if you do.</p>
<p>*Every costume is either a hooker/French maid or a zombie.</p>
<p>*Scary kids show up at your door, and they turn out to be your son’s best friends.</p>
<p>*Pumpkin = a PITA</p>
<p>*The only Jack-o-lantern you carve is a barfing pumpkin, and you aim it toward your neighbor’s house.</p>
<p>*For all you know, your teens could be going to an Ecstasy rave/orgy two towns away.</p>
<p>*Lucky Trick-Or-Treaters who come to your house get obscene amounts of miniature Kit Kats and Almond Joys.</p>
<p>*Kids who don’t make it to your house before 6 p.m. are S-O-L!</p>
<p>*16-year olds in black teeshirts, smoking cigarettes, and carrying pillow cases pass as Trick-Or-Treaters. </p>
<p>*You’d rather poke shish-kabob skewers in your eyes than sort pumpkin seeds, wash them, salt them, and roast them.</p>
<p>*You treat yourself to a $30 bottle of Syrah. :D</p>
<p>“The only Jack-o-lantern you carve is a barfing pumpkin, and you aim it toward your neighbor’s house.”</p>
<p>Slugg: LOL to the point of causing consternation amongst co-workers…</p>