For those of you keeping up, I just celebrated my sixth-month birthday on October 3. Yes-siree, Bob, I’m 6 whole months. As opposed to six skim months.
I’m discovering that the best part of life, so far, are the holidays. Any holidays. As far as I can tell, holidays are for dressing up.
First, I observed Independence Day. This is the holiday to celebrate the day the English came to America to spread religion and small pox to the Native Americans. I wore my special red-white-and-blue, these-colors-don’t-run, All-American striped dress.
Next, I celebrated Labor Day, which honors the esprit de corps of the American worker by giving everyone but Mommy the day off from work. I wore a red, white and blue dress, for this occasion, too. I can’t say for sure, but the dress was probably made by workers in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka or some factory run by children in China.
October is extra special because I’ve been celebrating two holidays! First, one of my teachers at the school house gave me some bangle bracelets for Eid. I wasn’t too sure what this meant, so Mommy looked it up on Google. Evidently, Eid is a festival marking the end of Ramadan. Even though we’re not Muslim, Mommy thought I should wear the bracelets to show my respect for my teacher’s holiday.
But the best holiday, at least so far, has been this whole Halloween thing. Here’s what I can tell about Halloween:
First, your mommy and daddy take you to the store to look for costumes. They set you in the middle of the floor in the crowded store and stuff you into five or six different get-ups.
Daddy says you can’t be the peas in the pod because that’s been done too many times. And you can’t be a red chili pepper because, although the costume is cool, it’s kinda boring.
You can’t be a giraffe because the giraffe hat doesn’t fit you. And you can’t be a lady bug because that’s just no fun.
But if you look really exceptionally cute in the frog and duck costumes, and Mommy and Daddy say I do, then you get to take home both costumes. I don’t know what I’m going to do with these things, but right now, they’re hanging in my closet and I like to try and grab them because they are fuzzier than my other clothes.
Also, you get to go to the pumpkin patch.
Other holidays I’m looking forward to this year:
- Sweeps Week
- Dia de los Muertos
- Christmas
- My 1-year birthday
- Easter
- Mario Day (Mar.10)
