Walks around the neighborhood have become so much fun for us now that people are starting to decorate for Halloween. You can tell already that everyone has totally upped their game this year.
Jackson especially loves searching for pumpkins and pointing them out to us. He likes finding other decorations, too — the inflatable dragons, the “Pumpkin man” (another inflatable), and ghosts.
There was one witch decoration down our street that just had the hat and broom smashed into a tree. At first he liked it and pointed it out every time we passed.
But then one day inside our house he kept talking about it and I could tell he was scared. First he was asking which direction the witch was and when I told him it was to the left, he asked if we could go to the right when we went for our walk later.
Then when I was upstairs I overheard him saying: “She’s not going to eat us.” Followed by, “Is she going to eat us?”
Poor thing has been thinking of this scary witch all day!
From then on, he was very insistent that we always went to the right whenever we went outside.
