Community Update

As my son turns 4 this October on the 27th, we decided to throw him a Halloween themed birthday party. After all, he was born in the Halloween week and since most Halloween bashes are thrown on the weekend before, he is a Halloween baby for all practical purposes! In fact, so much so that we had a very difficult time coordinating with otherfriends. To make sure everyone came to his birthday party we had to throw his birthday on the weekend before in the past 2 years. Because all the friends we know were usually going to a Halloween party on the last weekend in October.Most replied no to our Evite. Hence I check with everyone before hand then decide the date for his birthdaycelebration now.

This year luckily for us one of my friends, whose place we do our Halloween every year at, just delivered and will definitely not be able to throw a  Halloween party! So I grabbed the moment. We decided to do his birthday on the Halloween weekend with a Halloween theme. Nice.

But going down the memory lane I can very well remember why we could not do a Halloween party before now. My son was so scared of spiders and monsters. He didn’t know ghosts yet and still does not so there is no question of fear from that. But spiders, my god. We had a basement bathroom named spider bathroom for time outs and just taking the name of it was enough for him to stop acting out most of the time!

But now things have changed. What difference a year makes! (Other than changing pant and shoe sizes like 3 times in the year) something else that has changed is he has lost his fear of spiders! He actually was the one who cameup with the theme for his birthday to be Halloween theme, ‘something scary’ he said. And he was so excited about thedecorations, we went shopping together and he picked a bunch of eyeballs (yup) and a pack of 100 spiders for decorations! He also wanted a large jack-o-lantern and a big scary laughing skull but those were just too expensive so I had to talk him out of that. He loves to makes scary faces. In a snap of my finger he transforms into this cute scary faced ghoul at the mention of his birthday party. He has been thinking over what the birthday party would be like, for weeks now, ever since we came up with the ideafor the theme. I hope my decorating skills will keep up withwhat his brain is concocting up!

And he definitely wants a vampire soup for the birthdaycelebrations!

To think my little spider-fearing-cutie who wanted to be Mickey :) last year is turning into this monster-loving,ghoulish-faced, 4 year-old batman gives me the creeps! But it’s a pleasant journey with scary twists and each Halloween when he turns another year older I will don on whatever he wants me to be and run around the yard celebrating one more birthday!