Counting down the days to a day full of pretending and candy.
The countdown is on for one of the kids favorite holidays. Halloween is way more fun with kids and I love feeding off of their excitement. This year since we have the house up for sale, we didn't do too many decorations. (Don't think it would be a good selling point if I had creepy, gross things all over the house.) But the kids shouldn't suffer so instead we made a 13 day count down to Halloween. It has been so much fun to see them get excited about it.
Corbin comes home from school and heads straight for the countdown and pulls out the tag that tells us what we are going to do that day. Somedays have been harder because after he reads it I tell the boys we have to wait until daddy gets home. It's been a good lesson on patience.
I have really quite enjoyed it because it hasn't been overwhelming and helps me to focus on the fun of it all.
This night in particular was hilarious.
We had a trick night.
We each had to pull out a slip of paper and do what it said on it.
Whistle "I am a Child of God"
Play patty cake
Write your name and draw a self portrait in 15 seconds
Howl at the moon
Pat your head and rub your tummy at the same time
Waltz with someone
Yodel
to name a few.
We were laughing so hard. It was hilarious, although Corbin didn't love Waltzing with me. Can you beleive it? He's already embarrassed by that and we were in our own home! And someone's certain husband purposely picked yodeling for her.
It was a good night.
