Halloween in September?

Our neighbors brought out Halloween decorations more than two weeks ago.  I know what you're thinking, because we were thinking it too, "really?"  But it caught on.  Their neighbors put out some bigger decorations and then two more houses put out other things.  Soon, more than half of our street had out decorations and October hadn't even arrived.  What did we have planned, you ask?  We had no idea.

My husband said he wasn't going to directly compete with the large inflatables some of the houses had put out and it was far too early to get a real pumpkin, but that he was thinking about it and to give him some time. 

Shortly after that he had an idea, and a great one at that.  We ordered some theater light gels in different colors.  When they arrived, we cut them into shapes that matched the low-voltage up-lighting we had all over our yard and last night, just hours before the start of October, we enacted his plan.

We put an orange glow on lights that targeted the house and a green glow on lights that highlighted the plants.  I added a green downward glow on the path lights heading to the front door.  It looks very nice when it's dark and the best part it, it's invisible during the day.  

I'm sure we'll add a pumpkin or two and there's the cool psychedelic laser light display we got last month we'll add to a bush or the entryway, but for now, we're at least in the game. 

If Halloween is this much of a to-do on our street, I'm a little afraid to see what type of competition Christmas will bring...

The Big Boy Update:  He loves trains.  We've been given on loan a wooden train set that my neighbor's children grew up with.  He can play pretend with the Thomas the Train set for a very long time.  Today he was angry at me because I told him he had to go outside to play with our neighbor--whom he loves to play with--because it was interrupting his train games.

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:  We were deciding if we should order guacamole at lunch the other day and my daughter heard us discussing it.  "I want mack-a-mole-ee" she said and that decided that.  She easily ate half of the order in-between our requests for her to pronounce guacamole again and again because it was so cute.

Fitness Update:  Six miles, easy run in the light as my neighbor is working night float at the hospital this week so we ran after I woke up but before she had a chance to go to bed.