Oh silly witch!

 

I should really be cleaning and getting ready for my busy weekend, but I just have to post this really quick before it gets too late in the month and I forget....it's also too funny not to share and have as a memory for Coleman.

 

He looks so big! 27 months

 

The boys and I went out one evening to run some errands. I should preface a little bit that because the boys are so little, we don't talk much about Halloween, etc. I'm really not that big in to the "holiday" myself. Sure, I dress them up because it's cute and stuff, but the whole scaring, haunting, etc. really isn't my cup of tea and I'd rather focus on Fall fun like pumpkins, apples, harvest, and stuff. Coleman doesn't even eat candy yet so trick or treating/trunk or treats really don't apply to us now anyway. We do go to a wonderful Halloween outreach that our church puts on with games and stuff that he can enjoy, so I'm thankful for that! I don't decorate my house with witches and skeletons and spiders, I decorate with pumpkins, leaves, candy corn, apples, and acorns. That way my decorations can stay up for 2 months =) I also didn't think that at 2 years old I would have to explain to my son about skeletons, witches, devils, scary masks and costumes and what not (mommy lesson #457 I guess).

 

So, we are out running errands and I had to stop at Home Depot to get 2 little outlet covers (target didn't have them). Off we head into the store, I didn't grab a cart, I had Coleman walking with me and I was carrying Brekan. We walked in and there is a human sized skeleton with a large black robe on and a skeleton face. I immediately saw it and got down by Coleman and told him that it was funny, it wasn't real, and we just walked right past it. (crisis averted right?....wrong). We trekked our way ALL over the store and made a game of it while I got lost trying to find the electrical section (turns out it was straight back...but oh well). We were walking up to the counter to pay, Coleman was tagging along behind me because we were playing a chasing game with Brekan. I started to put my items on the counter, and Coleman comes up behind me and looks incredibly frightened! I bent down and asked him what was wrong, then I saw it. A human sized scary looking witch that cackled at him as he walked past it on our way up to the counter. I said "is that was you are scared of?" He just looked at me and lost it...I mean LOST it. Tears streaming, screaming high pitch cry...he was NOT HAPPY! I snuggled him as best I could with Brekan on my hip being bent down. I calmed him down and explained that everything was okay. I told him that it was called a witch and sometimes in October people put them out as decoration. I explained that they weren't real, just pretend (had him repeat that part), they were silly and not scary. He calmed down somewhat but I could tell it was still bothering him. We got to the car and I buckled the boys in. While buckling in Coleman I said "are you okay?" he said "yep", but I knew he was still thinking about it. So on the way home we continued to talk about it as I could tell it was bothering him. I told him that next time we see something like that we can say "Oh silly witch" and made a game out of it. He started to catch on and we laughed about it (yay...making progress). Then when I began to sing "shoo witch don't bother us (like the shoo fly song)" that really got him going and he was good to go!

 

So now throughout our day he will randomly say "oh silly witch" "shoo witch, don't bother us". Too funny!  However, the next day I took him to Meijer and we went through the Halloween section (an area I usually don't go into anyway) and we looked at the costumes and the skeleton, ghost, witch decorations. We also found a "scary" looking witch that had eyes that lit up and laughed. So we pushed the button and sang our silly song. Hopefully it helped him not be scared of all that stuff, but I really didn't think at 2 years old that I would have to do that.....lesson learned!