Halloween...

The Netherlands is not much of a Halloween celebrating country. Yet, we have bilingual and binational children, so, it is only fair they get traditions from both sides of the Atlantic. So, we celebrated this year. Tobias talked about all the candy that he likes and about what candy you need to eat when you want to be Dutch and what candy you need to eat when you want to be America. For example, you cannot eat "Drop" when you want to be American, yet you have to eat "Drop" if you want to be Dutch :-) (Drop is kind of similar to licorice, yet different... you have to try it to know it...).

Well, one of the things you do when you are American is celebrate Halloween; carve a pumpkin, dress up and go trick-or-treating. And that's what Tobias did. Lisa got a pumpkin and they carved it together. It came out quite well I might add, as you can see for yourself. Then, Tobias and I were going to scare Lisa. We were making a costume and had decided we would go around the back and then ring our doorbell and scare mama, his only trick-or-treat address on his route.... (since we didn't want to bother all the Halloween-unaware Dutchies...). You can see his costume in this picture. He is a "spider-ghost", the sheet being ghostly and his hat being a spider. It gave Lisa quite a scare (:-)) and it got Tobias some M&M's :-).

It was a nice Halloween.


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