One Thousand Words

Niko almost filled his blue plastic pumpkin bucket with candy, a nice feat considering we only hit 2 1/2 blocks (albeit both sides of the blocks) and those blocks had a lot of apartments and darkened not-at-home-or-else-faking-it houses. It helps that his bucket was padded out with:

• A beanie baby dog that is his puppy that needed to go Trick Or Treating so it would experience Trick Or Treating and be a Halloween Dog and grow up into a big boy dog and is named Harry.
• A gourd that some woman picked up off her porch and gave him because he liked it. SCORE.

Niko refused to go into one house because it had, and I quote, “A g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-GHOST!!!” hanging from the porch rafters. He actually said “guh guh guh ghost” and it was HILARIOUS and made other people laugh. Also some older kids dressed up as zombies scared the crap out of him. They were so adorable and called him “little dude” and “little guy” and apologized for scaring him and promised they weren’t going to hurt him it was just costumes it’s ok little guy it’s ok. They backed way off of him to give him space and skipped a house that was giving out candy, moving to the next one, so they wouldn’t freak him out again. Oh, young teens. You are so awesome with your zombie clown bloody faces and tattered clothing and rainbow wigs and hooks for hands. Halloween forever.

We kind of broke All The Halloween Rules, by which I mean Niko was dressed all in dark clothing with no reflective strips, and his mask was too big and he had a hard time seeing out the eye holes. But I figured it was ok for our short walk around residential streets that dead end and don’t see a lot of traffic.

If you’re wondering what Niko’s costume actually was, it was a track suit, a green wool duffel coat, and a white papier-mache cat mask that he colored with crayons to be a rainbow kitty. I was feeling like a bum that he didn’t have a nicer Halloween costume, even though being “a rainbow kitty” was exactly what he wanted to be, when I remembered that October 31st in Chicago is cold and windy and usually rainy and he was going to be wearing a coat anyway. So I got out a super awesome coat I picked up at a thrift store last year that is still a bit big for him and it covered up his lack of costume. And really, a mostly-white cat mask over a big duffel coat is kind of spooky in its own serial killer way.

Anyway, I hope your Halloween was super ace. How’d it go? What’d you/your kids dress up as? Did you give out candy? Get a lot of Trick Or Treaters? Did you get much loot?

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