It’s the middle of October
and it’s almost Halloween!
It’s such a fun little festive day with costumes, candy and things.
There’s lots of ghouls and
goblins and fairy tale costumes, too.
Like kings and queens and
fairies with wings just to name a few.
The children are so excited
to go knocking door to door.
Last year they got lots of
candy and this year they'll get more.
“It’s time to pick your costumes kids,” Mother
said with a smile.
“And you want to pick out
good ones, too, to trick-or-treat in style!”
“I want to be a cat,” sister
said, “with a big, fat, fluffy tail.”
“And you’ll make a pretty
kitty, too, and you’ll wear the costume well!”
“So what about you boys”
Mother asked. “Do you know what you will be?”
“I want to be a pirate,”
Tommy said “who sails across the sea.”
“Aaarrhh you going to
wear an eye patch like the pirates in your book?”
“Yes, I will!” Tommy replied,
“And a peg leg and a hook!”
“I don’t know what I want to
be,” Teddy said with a frown.
“Last Halloween I couldn’t
choose and I wore a hand-me-down.”
“I’m sorry,” Mother said to
him as she dried away his tears.
“We won’t make you wear the
things your brother wore last year.”
“How about you choose this
time, you can pick it all yourself.”
“And if you need some good
ideas your father would like to help.”
So Teddy was thinking for a
while and he drew some pictures, too.
He still hadn’t thought of
the perfect one. He didn’t have a clue.
So he finally decided he
needed some help and went to ask his dad.
“Can you tell me some
Halloween stories about the costumes you had?”
“Well, one year I was a
vampire,” he said, “and another year, a ghost.”
“The time I dressed as an
astronaut was the costume I liked the most.”
“And once I was a lion and
once I was a mime.”
“But it’s all up to you to
choose your own. Just give yourself some time.”
“But those are all such good
ideas,” he said with a sad kind of look.
“Just use your own
imagination. For me, that’s all it took.”
And Father was right because
soon enough, he knew just what to wear.
“Since my name is Teddy,” he
said, “I can be a teddy bear!”
So Mother made all of their
costumes. She started one by one.
And just in time for
Halloween she got the last one done.
So Sister was a kitty cat
with a big, fat, fluffy tail.
And Tommy was a mean old
pirate setting off to sail.
Teddy was a teddy bear, the
cutest you‘ve ever seen.
And they all went out to
trick-or-treat that night for Halloween!
