Zombie Babies

There is only about 6 weeks before Halloween luckily the girls already have two costumes lined up...so far.

Although I never intended to be that person apparently I am. Whatever. I'm an old mother.

Halloween does something to Gioconda. She starts talking about going to horror movies, she mentioned in passing dressing the girls as Leather Face from the Texas Chain Saw Massacre movies, and she bought a set of Zombie Babies.

To say the Zombie Babies are unsettling is an understatement. Even the most hardened of our friends has described the Zombie Babies as disturbing. Eyeless, with little baby pointed teeth, the Zombie Babies sit cross legged, and appear to be almost the exact size of our two non zombie babies.

The Zombie Babies currently reside in the living room. I don't go there alone anymore.

"I decided I'll be doing a photo series with the Zombie Babies," she said on Tuesday.

And then she showed me the list of the how she was going to pose the Zombie Babies.

"I'm just afraid you may end up burning in hell as a result of this," I said in an attempt to dissuade her.

She doesn't care. It's not like it is anything she can control. Something takes ahold of her during this time of year, something dark and menacing.

"I would really like to go see that 3-d movie Valentine, Bloody Valentine," she said last week.

I just smiled and nodded. This will be over soon enough, November 3rd - 4th at the latest.