Happy Halloween

October 31, 2009

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween everyone! i'm writing this in halloween colours, so hope nobody complains that they can't read it very well! So far, our halloween season has been great this year, for some reason it's even better when you have kiddies to enjoy it with - though i've always had the children at work to make hats and masks and cards with, and decorate the room with, and play halloween party games, it's different now that Poppy can properly enjoy it even though she still doesn't really understand what it's all about. And i'm sooooo looking forward to Christmas this year now that i've seen how much enjoyment she gets out of all the special celebrations and decorations and stuff :)

Anyway, back to Halloween - on Thursday we had a party at our house, to which we invited loads of people, mainly other babies and toddler friends of Poppy's and their families who we have gotten to know through the different clubs we go to or from nursery, but also some of the neighbours who live in our village, and everyone had to come wearing black. We decorated the house really good, but kept it quite simple too with hanging bats and coloured streamers, spider webs everywhere, window stickers and lots of carved pumpkins, and we lit lanterns all the way along the driveway and hung these special balloons i found with lights inside them in the garden, which looked absolutely wicked in the dark. We had lots of fun and games for all the kiddies to join in with, including apple bobbing, a pumpkin pinata, a spooky pass the parcel, feely trays full of goopy slimy things, a spooky story ('room on the broom' which Poppy absolutely loves), and a treasure hunt with torches in the back garden looking for special halloween chocolate coins! Then we had food and drink, which Poppy had 'helped' me prepare - spooky shaped sandwiches and biscuits, spider web cakes, jelly with sweetie worms in, monster feet crisps, and a special green punch drink with plastic spiders floating in it! Everyone had a great time, and all the kiddies got to take a balloon and a party bag home. Poppy had such fun, and she was so well behaved all evening. Oh, and her eating fussiness is now over because she scoffed herself at the party and has been eating well ever since (even vegetables which she seemed to totally go off for a while) - so maybe that's the answer next time she stops eating!

We've already had quite a few trick-or-treaters round the past few nights, and we're expecting more tonight. Poppy helps to answer the door if she is still up and she loves giving out the sweeties into their bowls and buckets, and occasionally sneaking one for herself. Later today we're going to another halloween party held at Victoria and Ella's house (which Poppy is going to dressed in the most adorable halloween fairy outfit - with an orange pumpkin dress, wings and a wand). And the halloween will be over for another year, but soon it will be bonfire night, and then getting ready for Christmas! Wow i'm so excited, i'm like a little kid all over again :) Oh, and also i get to cross #83 off my 101 list - yayyyy!