Halloween

Eddie has been really into the idea of Halloween this year. He has been talking about it for weeks. "Halloween is coming," he says. "Where is Halloween?" He has been really interested in all the kinds of monsters and ghouls: he learned about mummies recently, and was really enamored of the word because it sounds a lot like "Mommy" but means something very different.

Talking about mummies revealed a big gap in Papa's education! I told him that mummies are dead and wrapped up in bandages, and are in big tombs, and that if you steal treasure from the tomb, the mummy will come alive and come after you, moving slowly but inexorably until it catches you. Eddie wanted to know what happens when the mummy catches you, and, well, I don't know! What does happen if a mummy catches you? Zombies will eat you, vampires drink your blood, witches turn you into a frog, werewolves bite you, but mummies?

Another time, he gave Mommy the lego treasure piece, informed her that she was a mummy, then stole the treasure ("I steal your treasure!!!" he says. He actually pronounces the exclamation points, somehow.) So Mommy made the requisite angered mummy sounds while Eddie scampered around. Then he had second thoughts about this plan, so he gave it back (saying "I give back treasure.") So Mommy-mummy says "Oh. Well, I guess that's all right then." Does a mummy's curse get lifted if you return the treasure? I don't know!

Frankenstein's monster is another of Eddie's favorites. He first saw him in an anatomy book we had from the library a few months ago, and he's also in several of the books we have around now. Ever since that first book, Eddie has always been careful to say "Frankenstein's monster" and corrects us whenever we call it "Frankenstein." He doesn't seem to mind saying the long name over and over: frequently he pretends to be Frankenstein's monster, and he'll say "I'm Frankenstein's monster. Frankenstein's monster likes to play! You Dr. Frankenstein. Read to Frankenstein's monster!"

Anyway, here's Vincent: