Halloween was different this year. For starters, it was the first time in 17 years that we didn’t carve pumpkins. At all. We talked about them a couple times and I finally just told Ellie she could run up to the store and grab some if she wanted. But she didn’t.
Then she announced she wasn’t trick or treating. She didn’t dress up at all. No matching costumes with friends. Just hanging out with us and handing out candy. I’m certainly being dramatic but also trying to process how that window closed.
Liam dressed up as a Jedi in a last-minute, but well-done effort. He spent the evening trick or treating with Milo and Grady in the letter streets by themselves. There is a lot to process there as well. They had a great time though and came back with full bags.
Liam loves Halloween. A couple of weeks ago, he helped me decorate the house inside and out with lights and spiders. We even have a corpse trying to escape his coffin in our garden and skulls mixed into my mums. He made a playlist of the music he wanted to play when the trick-or-treaters came to the door.
We invited the Cavicchios over for pizza and waited for the boys to get back with their haul.
It was a fun night, but definitely another sign of the changes happening around here.