"Trick Or Treat"

Well another year has rolled around and it is Halloween time again. Chloe says that this is her most favorite Holiday behind Christmas and her birthday.

You get to dress up however you want to and go outside and people don't think it's strange. Plus you can get as much candy as you can carry.

She said the first year that she remembers going "trick or treating," she didn't know what to expect and she carried a small pumpkin and it didn't take long before it was full. The next year she got a bigger bag so she could stay out longer and get more candy. This year She said that she was going to let her mommy carry a bag that she could put hers into whenever it got full, so that she could keep on going.

About a month before Halloween the stores started putting out decorations and candy displays to get the attention of the children as well as the parents and grandparents so we took our annual tour down the Halloween isle to check out the new offerings and have some fun taking pictures without having to buy everything that she didn't need.

"Poppy, if you come in here after Halloween and these are reduced I want you to buy them for me! ok! ok!

The reason that she has said this is last year the witches that she wanted so badly I was able to get after the holiday for 75% off and she is hoping for that again this year.

 

I asked her why she had her eyes closed and she replied that the price tag was just above her eye and she didn't want to get it in her eye.

"Poppy, I think this witches hat must be for a little kid it looks lost on my head, don't cha (you) think so."

Then she found the gruesome hatchet and then wondered what you did with it. You won't find this in her Barbie Movies.

We went around the store and looked at all of their Halloween displays and then we found the pumpkins.

They had three that would have weighed several hundred pounds and they were an odd shape and set funny on the floor. They had a large box full of regular size pumpkins for your outdoor displays but what Chloe was looking for was her own personal pumpkin.

After looking them all over she finally picked out her pumpkin and before we had gotten to the cashier she already had a name for it.

When we got into the car and I held it while she put on her seatbelt she said, "Poppy don't drop Crystal."

We made a stop at Taco Bell for supper and she was telling Grandmother about her trip to the store.
She described in detail everything that we saw and the pictures that we took and the pumpkin that she had selected.

She said that this year she wanted to carve her pumpkin and that she wanted Crystal to have triangles for eyes and her nose, And for her mouth she would be smiling and she would have one tooth on the top on one tooth on the bottom of the other side of her mouth. (When we got home she drew her pattern out on paper.)

She then told us about her week at school and what she had learned that week and what she wanted to do this weekend.

"Poppy, I'm going to make some Halloween faces and you take my picture of them, Ok!!

She called this: "The Face Without Expressions" I called it: "The Smile Waiting To Break Through."

She called this: "The Sad Jack-O-Lantern" I called it The Snagged Tooth Pumpkin."

It's now time to carve the pumpkin and we have to get everything ready.

Comments made by Chloe as we were making the face on the pumpkin and cleaning out the insides.

Don't mess it up. Man, it is so yucky inside. I don't want to get my hands dirty. Please, be careful. She is looking great! Can we save the seed to plant next year?

The completed pumpkin, it has brought a matching smile from Crystal and Chloe.