November 01, 2006

Best. Hallowe'en. Ever.

What made it so great?

Here are the top 10 reasons:

10) D was thrilled with his Grandpa and Nana-procured Spiderman costume and got to wear it to school.

9) JT came over after school to be D's trick-or-treat buddy, officially making this a long-standing tradition.

8) D was totally grooving on our glowing alien hands and went "woooo, woooo'ing" all over the yard in a very creepy fashion. (Well, as creepy as an adorable five year old could be.)

7) After the first large group of visitors left, he came tearing up the sidewalk into the house to proclaim, "I think we're a HIT!"

6) He also insisted on telling folks at each stop along the way that "this is the best candy I've ever had, this is awesome," and when queried about his lavish praise, explained, "It makes people feel really happy!"

5) The beautiful evening brought out the trick-or-treater in everyone and we had a RECORD 81 costumed visitors... almost double the usual number!

4) We orderer Thai take-out for dinner and I wore my full cheetah costume to the restaurant for the pickup, thereby briefly spooking the hell out of the wait staff. S & JT opted to stay over, adding to the festive feel of the night.

3) We managed to get good carving pumpkins, put up the giant spider and fake gravestone, and hang the creepy skeleton thingy from the front door knocker before the first trick-or-treater arrived. (Just.)

2) D treated Miss P to a lovely rendition of "Ghost of Tom," and she showered him with all manner of Hallowe'en treats.

And finally, the number one reason this Hallowe'en totally rocked:

1) At one point early in the evening I heard one kid on the way up our front stairs say to another kid, "Oh, yeah, these guys are AWESOME!"

Coolness and deep satisfaction achieved. And I didn't even TALK about the candy!

4 comments:

Mrs. Chili said...

It is fantastic to be thought the COOL house on Hallowe'en, isn't it? Sadly, we never get that status - we're WAY up on a hill and almost no one is willing to make the trek up the driveway. We had a record eight kids this year. Yep. 8.

My husband takes the girls (Beanie, 7 and Punkin' Pie, 9 years old) out trick-or-treating in the new development down the street from us. This year, he determined that the house that had its garage opened up and was giving out candy to the little people and hot cocoa with Kahlua to the grown-ups walking with them won the "coolest house" award this year. The girls decided that the house that gives out the GIANT Crunch bars was the winner, hands-down.

Anonymous said...

We got exactly five trick-or-treaters! But if we count our own kids and the friends they went out with we could call it twelve. Lowest turn-out ever!

sophie said...

sounds like the most perfect
halloween - cheetah costume
and best candy ever!!

Stacy said...

I must concur. It was a most terrific evening.