My daughter's birthday is September 13. She was, in fact, born on a Friday the 13th as well. I like to use that as an excuse to use her birthday as the demarcation between Summer and Halloween though, in reality, Halloween for me starts on September 1; yes, even before Labour Day. It's my favourite time of the year.
This weekend I spent some time dragging the Halloween decorations out of their annual slumber: skeletons, bones, cauldrons, and all sorts of doodads. My children are no longer toddlers and in wide-eyed fascination of everything anymore which means that, to some extent, I can begin to have 'grown up' things in the house. Maybe even nice things. Only the cats will purposefully break things now.
So, gone are the paper decorations of old, and in with... legos. Yes. I am using my lego's to decorate for Halloween. Atop the entertainment centre in the front room, placed against the corner, is my Halloween set full of ghosts and goblins and things that go Boo in the night.
What sort of haunted Halloween mansion would be complete without a zombie horde coming to get you? Now, granted, these chaps aren't Lego, they're a generic brand from Dollar Tree, but they're compatible and... well... they're generically mindless. It seems to work. You will, however, see right at the front the official Lego Minifig Zombie Seargent-at-still-has-two-arms commanding them.
This poor little dude, though, doesn't know what to think. He must be concerned that he's being replaced by generics. Don't worry, buddy, there will always be a place for you.
And we do have ghosts! Very definitely ghosts involved in this haunting.
The ghosts and zombies on their own are having an effect on the Scooby Gang. Lookit them run! They look like they're missing someone thought.
Oh, right. Daphne. Where's Daphne? Captured, of course, by The Count (insert dramatic music here). I wonder if that really is a vampire, or if there's someone under that makeup?
It's a sure bet that this chick isn't telling. I think she's having too much fun watching the zombies scare the bejeezus out of the kids.
And there you have it. Grown up Halloween decorations. There's actually more, too, from some Hidden Side sets I have, which are designed just to be haunting. Muaahahahahahaha!