Ghost Night

Xander hosted our second official Ghost Night tonight. I'm not really sure where the idea of Ghost Night came from. Last Sunday morning, Xander told us that it was going to be Ghost Night that night. We said, "uh....ok...." and left him alone. He spent all day working on it. Whenever we went into the hall where he was working on it, he fussed at us because "Ghost Night isn't open yet!" We went out to the store and had ice cream at Brewsters and when we got back it was late and we were going to rush them to bed. But, Xander was really upset because we didn't do "Ghost Night," whatever that was. So, we decided not to crush his spirit since he had been working on it all day and we let him do his thing.

So this is what happens at Ghost Night: Everyone gets a ticket that Xander has provided to enter Ghost Night. Then, he passes out the "monsters" he has made. The monsters are little rectangles of paper of varying sizes with scary faces drawn on them and hair or something cut at the top with scissors. Xander always gets the biggest one. It is funny to watch Grace and Greta get so into it. Xander says, "Who wants this one?" and the girls yell, "Me, me, meeeee!" Once the monsters are passed out, you give Xander different tickets to buy a scary picture he has drawn. These are on normal sized paper. Finally, we turn off the lights, everyone gets up and moves into the hall, and we go around making scary faces and monster and ghost sounds. Then, Xander decides who did the best job with the scary time (always Jon, of course!!) and they get the Ghost Night Trophy- which is some other picture he has made. Tonight, the trophy was a horse (I think it was a "Night-mare"?) he had drawn, colored, and cut out. Also, tonight he had decided that admission and all pictures at Ghost Night would be free! Yay!

Anyone have any idea where Ghost Night is coming from? Is it in some book or tv show I've never seen? It is very serious business.

Grace was upset tonight because she wanted a pretty Princess picture instead of a ghost one, so Xander declared that tomorrow would be Princess Day and Ghost Night. We'll have to see what that involves and how it turns out!