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Finally, Halloween

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Mom, Dad, Grandma and I carved pumpkins while waiting for Halloween to officially start.

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There was a lot of pumpkin goo. Mom roasted the seeds but I’m still too little to eat them.

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Grandma drew the face on my pumpkin.

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Paw Paw “participated” from Boston.

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The whole event was pretty traumatic for me at first. I cried and kept saying “hurt punk-kin.” I LOVED our pumpkins and I just couldn’t understand why Dad wanted to take a jigsaw to them (and yes, he used a jigsaw to CUT the tops off!).

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Nini and Pop Pop came over and I finally got to get into my Halloween costume. I was a monster this year. ROAARRRR.

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Of course there were lots of family pictures. Always family pictures.

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Then, off I went!

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I ran into my friend (and next-door neighbor) Griffin. Isn’t his costume cool?

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I kept admiring my green monster feet and walked v.e.r.y. s.l.o.w.l.y.

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We only made it to five houses. Here I am at the house across the street.

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Nini and Pop Pop gave me yogurt melts and a schoolhouse toy that I play with all the time now.

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After I went trick-or-treating, I helped pass out candy while …

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the grownups enjoyed Dad’s famous chili—outside!

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Paw Paw joined in from Boston.

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Mom lit the pumpkins once it got dark.

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It got very cold but laps and my quilt kept me warm.

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As little kids do, eventually I got tired of sitting so Pop Pop walked up and down the sidewalk with me.

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Then we had to go in. And I did not want to go in. I cried and screamed and kept trying to push the front door open. Finally milk and my new schoolhouse toy calmed me. Mom kept using a big word—”over-stimulation.”

During the days that followed I discovered I really like Reese’s peanut butter cups. For a week Mom would ask me every morning what I wanted for breakfast—oatmeal, cereal, yogurt, toast, a banana, etc. I always requested “pun-kin” (that’s where my Reese’s peanut butter cups were). But for some reason Mom has some silly rule about no chocolate for breakfast. I bet if I had worn my monster costume, though, I would have scared her into it.

Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite,
All are on their rounds tonight;
In the wan moon’s silver ray,
Thrives their helter-skelter play.

—Joel Benton

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