It started, as these things do these days, with YouTube. My four-year-old discovered trick-or-treating videos , and that was it — Halloween became THE topic he couldn’t stop yapping about.
First came the decorating. He wanted the house “spooky,” so we went all in: blown up balloons of bats, spiders, wicked witches, pumpkins and hollow trees, strung up wherever he pointed. Then hanging decorations with more bats and pumpkins, swinging gently by our glass door like this was a spooky house for preschoolers.
Next came the costumes. Oh this was a serious affair. He chose to be Spider-Man while his little sister got to be Singapore’s smallest talking pumpkin, somehow managing to look both fierce and adorable at once. When his Spider-Man costume arrived, he wore it to sleep for WEEKS prior to Halloween.
We kicked off Halloween morning with the Buboween event at Gobubs, which he talked about for days ever since I signed us all up for it. There were pumpkins to decorate and paint, toys to play, and spooky balloons to amuse the little babies with. Nothing too stimulating. My boy would probably be too old for this stuff next year, but we will definitely still be back for the morning festivities.
Finally, the main event: trick-or-treating around our own estate, going door to door with a very serious Spider-Man and a very determined pumpkin, candy bucket swinging with every step. Their cousins came along and they had so much fun screaming “trick-of-treat!” and none of them got scared at any of the spooky houses.
It’s funny how a few minutes of YouTube videos turned into weeks of anticipation, balloons on every wall, and one unforgettable day. I don’t think my eldest will forget this Halloween — and honestly, neither will I.
xoxo
JEAN
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