Halloween and Climbing
This Halloween, we are not going to have a bonfire. Although, it would have been super-fantastic. This year, we will dress up in costumes disguises, beg people for candy, and watch “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” on YouTube.
A few months ago (when I start thinking about All Hallow’s Eve), I asked the kids what they wanted to be. They were watching Disney’s Peter Pan a lot then. Ty said he wanted to be Peter Pan, and Kyle wanted to go as Captain Hook. If I have a few months, I can patch those disguises up in time for Halloween. But they started on their Legend of Zelda phase, obviously influenced by Dad’s video game, and they both want to be Link, the boy who is on the quest to save Princess Zelda. Link looks a lot like Peter Pan, except Peter Pan doesn’t have iron boots, rupees, nor a sword. In other words, Peter Pan is a wimp with a fairy on his shoulder.
AAAaaaanyway, Dad wants a black cloak to hide himself from the evil sprits that roam that night. I mocked one up of old light-colored bedsheets. Now Ty wants to go not as Link but as “a white ghost, like Daddy.” So Ty can go as a white ghost (with sleeves and a hood), and Kyle can be Link. Taylor is going to be a fairy because Link needs a fairy. And I think I’ll be a gigantic fairy this year. I don’t know what Isis wants to be.
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Now that it’s not so hot, the kids are spending more time outside. The summers are so backward here. In the summer, we close up the house and do not go anywhere. Yesterday, it was hot again. Not only hot, but humid, too, because a storm passed overhead the night before.
The boys on the monkey bars. Taylor was taking a nap. She can climb as high as Kyle does, but it is frightening to watch as she is still uncoordinated.
Ty swings like a monkey. Now if we can get him to let go with one hand and work his way to the other side.
