Halloween Party 2011

As usual every year, the PolarBear and PandaBear Clubs organised one of the most anticipated party, the Halloween! The Polar Bear Club was originally set up in 2000 for families who speak English predominantly at home and whose hometown is not Japan. Since it received an overwhelming requests in membership, a second club was set up, hence the birth of Panda Bear Club. I have been a member of these clubs since Wilkie was 1 year old in 2007.





On this year's Halloween party, I planned on dressing up Wilkie as a witch and Fredi as Mike Wakowski of Monsters Inc. Wilkie was Mike W when he was 2, and I have been saving the costume for Fredi now that he's 2. But Fredi, going through a stage of terrible 2, refused to put it on, so I just let him be. Instead, I put him on a Postman Pat shirt. Alas, he slept during the first hour of the party since he woke up at 4:30am that morning and kept me awake long the way! Oh well, I might as well wake up and took my time preparing potluck dish for the party. Roy was really kind and sweet as usual as he let me took my time to put my make up on (I had been thinking of red rouge for my lips to go with the red horns as I was the devil for that day) while he kept an eye on the boys especially Fredi who is at the stage of separation anxiety. I wanted to do my eyes more dramatically than I could but I was pressed for time.









Whenever there's a party, it's traditional for club members to bring a dish for potluck lunch. This time, I brought Gomoku Gohan, made according to traditional recipe. Recipe to follow soon. After lunch, we had a massive chocolate cake ordered specially from Costco. Everyone had a slice, including me, shared with Fredi, while Wilkie had one all to himself. He waited patiently to get a particular slice with a pumpkin cream decoration on it. He was so happy when he brought it to the table to sit and eat.





Then it was time for Trick and Treat! As usual, it's a sweet sugary affair, but hey, I'm not going to get uptight about dietary principles here and it's only on special occasions I let my kids have what they want. In the end, they didn't eat much of the sweet treats at all. But the Trick and Treat wasn't all sugary stuff, we also get crisps and senbei (japanese rice crackers). Apart from sweets and , we also get story books, so that was a very nice touch!











The complete set of photos can be viewed on Flickr.