The Things

This Halloween, my family had a theme.  We have started having themes each year.  Last year, we were Greek gods and goddesses.  I was Artemis.  This year, we were the Things.  I was Thing 1, Richard was Thing 2, and so on.  We had red sweat pants and red shirts with our number on them.  The thing that really brought the whole costume together though was the bright red spikey wigs.  We all looked like giant red sticks.  It was pretty funny.  The wigs were extremely itchy, but eventually we all got used to it.

            After a series of what felt like 10,000,000 pictures, we finally started walking.  First, we went to Mrs. Spaht’s house.  It was really funny because she had been in Mrs. Harper’s classroom earlier that day and she knew my brother and me.  It was kind of embarrassing to see a teacher looking like that.  She seemed to like our costumes though, so it wasn’t that bad.  Then we went to my grandmother’s house.  When we walked up, she called me Richard and Richard Aimee Claire.  It was really funny!!  Then later on when we were walking to another house, my mom said that she couldn’t tell Richie and me apart very easily.  It was really weird that they couldn’t tell us apart, but really funny too. 

            I got a lot of candy that night.  Every house we went to, the candy hander outers could always complement us on our giant family costume.  When we would walk in the streets, every family we passed would say, “Look!!  They’re from Dr. Seuss!” or “Look!! Thing 1,2, and 3!”  It was really weird that that many people noticed our costumes.  It was really cool though.  We all had a lot of fun that night I love Halloween and look forward to our costume themes every year.