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Halloween sure has changed now that Katie, Andrew and Nicholas have gotten older. When they were little, sparkling princesses, pumpkins and cute clowns were the typical costumes. In preschool, they always had big Halloween parades where the kids would march around in their costumes for all the parents and grandparents to "ooh" and "aah" over. We only trick-or-treated a few homes of family and friends when it was barely dark. It is a tradition of ours to go over to their Nini and Papa's home and trick-or-treat in their neighborhood (the one I grew up in).
Katie, Andrew and Nicholas have officially passed the cute costume stage, and have replaced it with scary masks, black capes, ninjas and Shadow Hunters. Now that the kids are older, we are having fun all over the neighborhood, visiting haunted houses and spooking one another.
They also had a good message to share: don't use drugs or drink, or you'll end up dead like the skeletons and zombies, and stay in school or the wicked witch will come and find you.
Pete got one of the monsters to poke my shoulder and scare me, that little rascal. The kid's weren't too scared, but the others in the group were going crazy screaming at the top of their lungs. As Nicholas put it, "They were almost scarier than the haunted house."
We had a great Halloween and I am so grateful for that. I cherish this time because I know all too well there will come a time when the kids no longer want to trick-or-treat on Halloween.
What did you do for Halloween this year?