Friday, October 31, 2008

Happy Halloween!

Last night, Abang and I went to a halloween party in PJ. It was our first time although Cuz and AJ had been for the past few years so I got bits of information from my sister which made me a little apprehensive.

First things first, we had to figure out a costume for Abang. I was adamant about not spending gazillions of ringgit for a once-a-year occassion. I found some Transformers masks at Toys R Us (for under RM10!) so decided we'd work around a Transformers theme.

In the end, Abang chose Optimus Prime and Adik chose Bumblebee which worked out quite well. I wasn't planning to bring Adik to the party, but I just let him play along and built a 'costume' for him too.

We bought some Transformers stickers and stuck Optimus Prime all over an A4 paper and pinned that to his shirt. We did the same for Adik but stuck Bumblebee stickers instead, and on a yellow shirt. Abang also wanted to 'wear' a weapon on his arm so I got some thick cardboard, painted it grey, folded it and made it into a sleeve that he could just slip on his arm. The barrels of the weapon were made of 2 toilet roll tubes, duly painted red and blue (which are Optimus Prime's colours, for the uninitiated).


Prior to all this, each child registered for the party (and who paid RM30) was given an arts and crafts kit to make a witch's hat and a goody bag - as modeled by Adik, below - to carry all the goodies given out during trick or treating.


Abang, bless him, kept asking to bring Adik along ("Alaaa Mummy, kasi chan la, Mummy, let Adik go for the party also...") but it I knew it would definitely be too exciting - scary even - for him.

It's 6pm and Optimus Prime was ready for Halloween!


We fetched Cuz from Atok's house and off we went. When we arrived, there were already 2 groups going trick or treating. There must have been about 50 children and as many adults, going around the neighbourhood in groups of about 10-15. Little did I know that upon arrival, each child is then also given a water gun, to shoot at various monsters or anyone they fancy.

My worry that Abang would be a little overwhelmed by all this was totally unfounded. He got into the swing of things real fast, screaming "ATTAAAAACK....!!!" whenever we bumped into another group.

If anybody was a little freaked out, it was me, the first-time-at-a-halloween-party mom. After unsuccessfully avoiding being sprayed by various water guns, I then had to make sure Abang didn't get too carried away and lose me or Cuz since he didn't know anybody else there. Plus highly charged kids running around on the road at night had my heart stopping more than once.

Some of the participating houses had the host (and their kids!) all dressed up in ghoulish outfits while distributing the goodies and others had rather bemused looking maids doing it. No matter, the trick-or-treaters just wanted their loot and be gone. Some houses were also "refill" stations, i.e. they had a pail of water there to refill empty water guns. The more seasoned trick-or-treaters brought their own super-soakers, which, true to its name, soaked their targets rather superbly.

Abang was well and truly drenched in sweat and water by the time we were done visiting 15 houses. At the organiser's house there were many activities - face painting, games, storytelling - as well as lots of food. I'm guessing the RM30 from each child also goes towards paying the maids extra for all the cleaning up!


Abang and Cuz sat together gorging on their candy while Mummy had some dinner. After about half an hour of chilling out, it was time to go. Storytelling was in full swing and neither boy was interested in it, plus it was getting late (i.e. almost 9pm!) so we sent Cuz home and came back after.

Next year, I say it's Daddy's turn! :P

2 Comments:

At 10:06 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

errr...no update on aftermath ? ha ha ha - Ant J

 
At 10:32 PM , Blogger Full Time Mom said...

Ha ha ha indeed.

Well first of all, Daddy said "no way" to the idea of sending him for next year's Halloween (or "halau-ween" as Adik calls it) party.

Secondly - nah. Aftermath was as tiring as the real thing.

 

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