An American mother documents her infant son Wes's first Halloween, showing how she dresses him, packs the stroller, and explains U.S. customs like porch lights signaling candy and tornado sirens marking trick-or-treating times. She narrates everyday English phrases throughout the day and bedtime routine.
Happy Halloween! Happy Halloween everyone! This is extra special because this is Wes's first Halloween, so we are so excited to take him trick-or-treating for the first time. He's still a little young, so trick-or-treating might not go as planned, but we're at least going to walk around the neighborhood and let him people watch and see everybody in their costumes. Costumes. This brings back a lot of memories for me of getting dressed up with my sister, running around our neighborhood getting candy, and staying out a little bit later and then coming home and sorting it all. In America, the traditions can vary greatly, but most of the time people will hand out candy, and if your front porch light is on, that means you have candy and you're handing it out. If it's off, that either means you ran out of candy or you're not home. So we are going to have a lot of fun eating all of Wes's candy. Apparently. So come get ready for our first Halloween with us. Wes was going to dress up as Chucky the Demon Child, but he outgrew his overalls. So we are going to wear a Halloween-themed shirt this year, and next year we'll get him a proper costume. There you go! Yay! And his final costume. We had some trouble getting it over his head because honestly, I have never put anything over his head thus far. It's always went from the bottom up. But we are ready in our costume. We're gonna put some pants on and then we're gonna go trick-or-treating. Yeah? Oh, we're excited! So before we head out for trick-or-treating, I am going to feed Efes dinner of chicken and green beans. In my town, when you hear the tornado siren going off, that means trick-or-treating has started. It'll start at 6:00 PM and then it'll go off again at 8:00 PM, meaning that the trick-or-treat is over. But we also want to make sure that we are packing up our stroller. I always have an emergency kit for us. That includes wipes, diapers, and one extra onesie. So what was your favorite costume? I was a green dinosaur when I was 4 years old. He's gonna wear it when he's size appropriate. You're gonna be a dino when you're 4? I don't think I ever had a favorite costume, but I had one that I fully regretted. I went as a devil, I think, and I used my mom's lipstick to paint my face and it dyed my entire face red for like a week. Like, it looked like I was blushing all the time. Do you think we should change him into a sloth? It's a little thicker and they keep them warmer. Plus it's an actual costume. Look, you want to be a sloth? Yeah, let's be a sloth. Hold on. Hi buddy, are you trick-or-treating? Where do people store this stuff? That's a fire truck! What is that? Yay, Happy Halloween! We have finished our trick-or-treating. We got to see a lot of cool Halloween decorations, tons of kids in costumes, but now it is bedtime. So we are going to wind him down. We are going to give him his bottle, tuck him in, and say good night and happy Halloween. Say bye, Wes. Happy Halloween.
