Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Costumes and Halloween Fun!!!




Just an update to let you know how The House of Dagromm celebrated Halloween this year. First, my wife and I sent our kids out with some neighborhood friends to go Trick or Treating. It was a year for combo costumes as the boy decided to be an "off the shelf" Cyborg/Alien and the girl got her wish to be a Vampire Rock Star. I blame these costume choices on things like Yu-Gi-Oh which has monsters with confusing over explained names like The Blue Eyes White Dragon. My wife and I stayed behind to pass out treats and put up some hastily thrown together decorations. I set out the electric jack-o-lantern (thanks mom), put the glow in the dark skull in the window, and put about 1/5 of the fake cobwebs that we bought up around the door with some plastic spiders. I also put out the electronic talking tombstone that we bought. Unfortunately that purchase wasn't that well thought out, as it's motion activated and almost the entire area around our front door is paved driveway. If I put it in the yard then nobody would ever activate it and if I put it in the driveway then it becomes unfortunately so unconvincing as to be stupid. So instead I stuffed it into the holly bushes so that it wasn't seen much, but was at least activated once in a while. Then my wife and I waited for trick or treaters. She wore our sons grim reaper mask and shroud from last year and I controlled the lights. When people came to our door, I would flick off the porch lights and we live on a very dark street and turn on s strobe light that was inside the house. Then I would slowly open the door and my wife would walk down the front hall towards them as a flickering vision of death. It was pretty fun to see the reaction although it took a few times to get it right. She didn't have her contacts in the first time and I don't think it was too scary as death walked into door frames and stumbled around trying to find the candy that was obviously set right behind her. We got a couple of oohs and aahs as well as a few shrieks, but everybody appeared to appreciate the effort.

After our kids finally made it back home we ate a late dinner and watched Monster House on DVD. It's a cute movie that's appropriately dark and has what I think is the right level of scariness for kids 7 and up. Unfortunately my daughter is 6 and needed to sleep with her big brother last night. Oh well, everybody is groggy today and we all agreed to get to bed early tonight. We'll see if that sticks.

13 comments:

Nate said...

ahhhhh...its sooooo Leave it to Beaver

Q said...

What a great night you had. All I did was dress up in my old standby 60 year old prostitute costume and walked around making some extra cash and getting some candy.

Cyber D said...

I'm thinking you missed out by not pretending to be a video game junky with a Super Nintendo remote plugged directly into an I/V in your arm... you know... in order to warn the kids of the dangers of video games. Genius!

Dagromm said...

Uuuhmmm ok. Did you dress your kid up this year Cyber D?

Cyber D said...

Dude, you totally missed the throw-back joke. Gyuss will get it!

Q said...

CyberD, you need to dress EJ up as Magnum PI at least once while he is little and can't stop you. You could give him a mustache, wig and a Hawaiian shirt. It would be brilliant.

Dagromm said...

I agree with Q and don't dodge the question. I know you'll dress "Lil Higgins" up in costume every week, so it's only fair really.

Nate said...

...its no Baker Hall haunted house...

/throws back to Cyberman

Dagromm said...

Wow, I'm still surprised that you and my wife are able to talk after the Baker Haunted House.

Nate said...

it took alot of lovemaking for me and Devas to make up...but we finally did

Cyber D said...

To anwser Dags question, my son went to a fall carnival at our church dressed as a cowboy.

To Gyuss, that's what I'm talking about! And why were you and Devas on the outs after the Baker Haunted House? Refresh my memory.

Nate said...

I dunno. That was the year she was mad at me for all sorts of reasons. I don't remember the specifics of the why she was mad about the haunted house.

Cyber D said...

If memory serves, a great many people were mad it you in the mid-90's. Those were some vintage years for the house of Gyuss!