Halloween 2014
Boo!
Greetings to everyone.
The church where Rebecca's MOPS group meets had a community Halloween/Harvest festival last Sunday. They offered bounce houses, padded combat pits, ball pits, cupcake walks, ball tosses, and many other games and activities. Most of these were too advanced for Xavier to partake in.
Xavier did crawl around in the ball pit (a portable 4x4 foot mesh fabric cube filled with plastic balls), but did not show much excitement. What he did find fascinating what the fishing pools, something he proved extremely adept at.
The pools were three-foot diameter, plastic wading pools filled with water. The bottom of the pools were littered with plastic rings, small plastic fish and other carnival-style trinkets. The fishing pole was an 18 inch dowel rod with a yarn line and a bent paperclip hook for snagging the submerged kitsch.
Xavier took right to this game; in fact, it was difficult to pull him away from it. He liked pushing the pole around in the water, while being completely oblivious to the fact his paperclip hook held all manner of items. Nearly every time he pulled his pole tip from the water it had one or more items snagged: a ring, a fish, a little plastic critter. The other kids fishing struggled and complained they couldn't get anything, yet Xavier, who was only interested in pushing the end of his pole around in the water, caught everything from the easy to snag items to the difficult to snag items. Perhaps Xavier's lack of care for the kitsch was the secret mindset to adopt.
Our family spent Wednesday evening carving our pumpkins. The Pumpkin Xavier chose a few weeks back was too small and difficult to carve, so we left it intact. The larger pumpkin we found proved difficult to carve due to its three-inch thick walls, but it did succumb to our perseverance.
Rebecca found this costume several week ago. It has hung on the handle of our front door so Xavier might grow used to it. He played with the slipper feet frequently, but Sunday was the first time he got to wear the whole costume. As plainly seen in the upper left, Xavier is not a happy camper; he does not like the head wear. Rebecca had to hold his arms to keep him from pulling the hat off his head. The lower right inset Xavier works his way down the stairs to the games and fun. The cost of entry was a bag of Goldfish and a small bag of candy.
