Halloweeny House

Julia decided to add some spooky Halloween spirit to our home decor, so she hung various drawings up all around the house.  It's kind of a fun surprise to see where she placed these drawings. 

Who knows, maybe you'll go to grab a snack out of the pantry, and - BOO! - you'll be greeted by Frankenstein and a skeleton:

OR, you may be walking in the back door and be shocked silly by the lyrics to one of the hit songs of "Hocus Pocus":

I poot a spell on you - now THAT'S some scary stuff!


Or you may go to look at yourself in the mirror and instead see tombstones:

Wait a minute.  Whose head is that peeking out from the mirror reflection?  Is it mine, or...could it be THE GHOST OF EMILY BINX?!?!?!?  Spoooooooky!


OR, you might sit down at the table for a nice meal, only to be - BOO! - scared by this creepy ghost!:

Then we've got our lovely new wall decorations:

A jack-o-lantern, a cauldron, and a spooooooooky spider web!


And perhaps best of all is the blood streak on the window glass:

JULIA: Mommy?  Are you wondering WHAT this thing is?  It's BLOOD, because, you know how it's kind of scary if you walk into a house and you see, like, blood stains all over the place??

Definitely scary.  And not in a Halloweeny sense.  More like a this-house-belongs-to-a-murderer sense.  But let's not get macabre here.


Finally, Julia designed a very special haunted box house that is ONLY to be used on Halloween:

Madeleine desperately wanted to play inside the haunted house today.  Did Julia allow her to?  Do you even need to give it a moment's thought?

I had to intervene at the point that the girls were ready to throw down in their fight over the box, and afterwards, Madeleine decided to make her OWN haunted house (as she called it, her haunted fort), complete with furniture covered in blankets, a witch's broom, and a pumpkin-colored balloon from the dentist's:

BAM!  In your FACE, Julia!  You can have your haunted box, and I'll stick to my haunted fort over here!

Now, to add even more spookiness to our day, Julia and I get to visit the doctor's office this afternoon to get flu shots.  A big, pointy needle in our arm, probably causing some bleeding - woooooooowooooooooh!  It doesn't get more Halloweeny than that!