Comments on: Our first happy Halloween

By: MJ

MJ — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:53:10 +0000

Ha! Totally know how you feel! I’ve never liked this holiday…pretty strange event for someone who wasn’t born here. Here’s a post that explains my full feelings about it!

http://third-culture.org/2011/08/12/hating-halloween/

By: RookieMom Heather

RookieMom Heather — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 01:57:50 +0000

@Ariana, I feel you. I like that you took your picture early, before your (patty-)meltdown.

By: Ariana

Ariana — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 01:04:41 +0000

I was a hamburger and my 5 1/2 month old son was mustard (check us out http://sunsaturatedsidethoughts.tumblr.com/post/1475717611/the-boys-first-halloween-i-was-a-hamburger-he#notes) – for about 5 minutes. I stayed up late the night before to finish my costume and literally gave up on finishing his about an hour before leaving for my sister’s to go trick-or-treating. Halloween day consisted of lots of screaming and teething and tears at our house.
Trick-or-treating was freezing. I wore my coat over my costume and the boy wore a fleece suit and a tiger hat with ears, under a blanket in a stroller. We went out with my sister, her fiance and my niece (the only one who got any candy) for a good hour before the hail hit. Next year my husband and I want to collect candy!

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:07:50 +0000

Lol. So good to know we weren’t alone. Reilly threw a fit in the Strawberry swaddler and didn’t even last long enough for a picture (5 months). We got to walk around the neighborhood for a few with her nephews, but she was sleeping in the stroller. Honestly, Dad and I were just happy to get home to see the end of the baseball game . Figure we have years of costumes and festivities ahead!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:44:47 +0000

Hear hear!! I think this about sums up ours. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1HkbMLGxUL0/TM7Q0EXrk1I/AAAAAAAAFKk/Rt5nSAsvzek/s1600/h2.JPG
As I sat on the front steps passing out candy with a fussy 2 month old I heard my 2.5 year old daughter – returning from brief trick-or-treating with her dad – happily shrieking “mommy mommy i have CANDY!!!” in a sugar-induced tone of voice I’ve never heard come out of her mouth before. All I could think was: “next year will be better.”

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:33:08 +0000

Oh man, I hear you. Our son was four months old last Halloween, I got him in a baseball onesie and a hat and took him to 3 houses of people we knew from church, and that was it.

This year, we went out of town and came back late last night, no costume, no trick-or-treating, nothing. But the 16-month-old who doesn’t know what Halloween is didn’t care. It honestly bothered us, the grown-ups, a little more – mostly because of all the Facebook posts of people with younger kids than us posting pictures of the cute costumes and how much fun they had. But I keep reminding myself not to beat myself up – the kiddo isn’t missing anything, and he’ll probably have a lot more fun next year anyway!

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 03:04:02 +0000

My daughter is almost 2.5 and my son is 5 months and this is the first year we went out trick or treating. When my daughter was a baby, I couldn’t deal with it. We dressed her in a puppy costume, took some pics, put a bowl of candy on the doorstep with a “sorry we missed you!” note and ate pizza on the couch. Last year she refused to wear the lion cub part of the costume on her head and I was newly pregnant and ill. So we took some pics and did a repeat of the previous year.

This year we got her doggy costume early so she could wear it around the house to get used to it–it was just a doggy thing on her torso (so she wore her own pants and shirt) and a doggy head with ears that she ended up loving. We dressed my son in the old baby puppy costume, buckled him into the stroller and walked around the neighborhood. She loved it, he fell asleep.

Instead of pretending there’s a fairy who takes the candy, I just told her that she could pick a few pieces of candy to keep and then she could trade the rest of it to me and her Daddy and we would give her a present. She happily obliged and ended up with a cute talking Cookie Monster. I ate some candy last night and gave it away today.

I’d rather be up front with her about what happens to the candy. It’ll be bad enough having to explain the Tooth Fairy/Santa/Easter Bunny in the future. I did get the idea from the Halloween Fairy post on this site though, so thank you for that!

By: Kira

Kira — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:40:31 +0000

This was my second rookie mom Halloween. I made a super hero costume the first year for our 6 month old, this year, to keep with the “less stress=happy mama” theory, I purchased one costume from a garage sale, price tag still attached, score! And the other from the store. I also put our 18 month old down for a nap and waited for him to get up before attempting trick or treating, which worked out great!

By: LauraC

LauraC — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 01:13:56 +0000

I always say starting out with twins is the best thing to happen as a parent because you ALWAYS have low expectations. Our boys were about 5 months old around their first Halloween and we were honestly just happy to be showered and out of the house.

It’s gone uphill every year since for us. That is the nice part about having two the same age, you get past the young age fairly quickly.