decorating for halloween {part 1}

My son officially gets holidays now. In fact, he adores the whole process of decorating for the holidays {definitely my child}.

Halloween is upon us...actually it is right in front of my eyes. Now I have never been a big decorator for this holiday. I carved a pumpkin, but it has been a long time since I have gone beyond that. Well, Thurgood asked me yesterday if we could decorate for Halloween. I could not help but be swayed by his lovely curls. Even when I came to pick him up at daycare, he immediately asked if we were decorating for Halloween today.

So...off to Walmart & the Dollar Tree we went.

We started by creating a landscape. A LIMBO landscape.

What is LIMBO? LIMBO is a game on XBOX that my son and husband play. We have it filtered so Thurgood doesn't see everything the game has to offer, but basically you have a little boy escaping big spiders.

 So for less than $10...I recreated LIMBO. Thurgood found the spider and from there I ran with it. {yes, that is RH of Atlanta}

 This pic is a tad out of focus, but I edged the top with white Christmas lights to backlight the scene when the lights are off.  {you get the idea}

You should have heard Thurgood squealed when I cut out Arthur, "the LIMBO boy."

It took me 2 times. I can not draw. I knew the 1st one was bad when Thurgood asked what it was.

Thurgood even helped me while I was placing everything. He would say, "a little more over Mommy or Arthur needs to be higher, I can't see him."

Even though I started a new rotation today, this moment topped my day. Thurgood and I were excited to tackle this task together. It was a wonderful way to spend time together.

My little boy finally gets it {holiday decorating} and I love giving it to him as much as possible.

Cheers~

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