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Took Aspen To A Haunted House

Oct 13, 2008 02:16PM - 7 comments

So I was reading in What To Expect The First Year and it said that babies at Aspen's age don't yet know to fear things that are "scary". So, last night I decided to go with my girl friends to a haunted house attraction thing and I couldn't find a baby sitter so I decided that I would bring Aspen with me.

At the gate to the haunted house they kept advising me to not take her in there because they always have little kids coming out crying. But then she admitted that she had never actually seen a child under three go in. So we had one of the characters from inside come out and try to scare Aspen and instead of crying she laughed. Probably helps that her and I play hide and seek all the time and I am always sneaking around corners and up behind her and going "BOO".

While waiting in line my friends and I kept fake screaming and Aspen would fake scream back which was really amusing. Once we got inside the haunted house it was fine. The only two times Aspen got scared was when we went through a pitch black room and weird things from the ceiling kept tickling us. The other time was when one of my friends screamed and grabbed me and accidentally got Aspen's leg as well who screamed since she wasn't expecting it.

All in all I think Aspen had a good time. I didn't bring a stroller or anything and just carried her on through. Most of the time I would run through the rooms pretending to scream and Aspen was laughing and pretending to scream with me. At one place in there you have to crawl through this like glowing tunnel and Aspen went through and crawled on her own after me and was being really funny because she kept trying to touch the lights on the other side of the glass. The actors in there were really nice and would interact with Aspen by trying to scare her (but in like a friendly way) and then would let her touch their props. One person even got really close to her face and was doing the menacing laugh and all Aspen did was take her hand put it on their forehead and pushed them away.

I don't think I will take her again until she is like 8 or so just because once she does learn to fear things I don't think it would be a good place for her to be. But it was fun that she was able to come this time and seemed to enjoy it.

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by ashiepooh, Oct 13, 2008 02:24PM
How old is Aspen?  I think thats cute though with the little screams!  Ahaha  My kids, I take them to costco and they have halloween diplays out and one pops up from the ground so my daughter runs up screaming BOOOOOOO and it pops up  and she laughs!  Ahaha so thats good she didnt get scared!

by alaysha, Oct 13, 2008 02:27PM
Aspen will be 10 months in 10 days! Little kids are so cute I love that she runs up and screams BOOOOOO! Haha

by ashiepooh, Oct 13, 2008 02:31PM
For 10 months old, that is quite amazing that she didn't get a little scared besides the pitch black!  So that is awesome!  Yeah both my kids, they are quite weird sometimes LOL  they have this thing to sneak up on you and scream BOO!  A few times thay have actually scared me because i'm not expecting a little kid to come running up on me ahaha!  

by alaysha, Oct 13, 2008 02:35PM
Yeah I think my family is a little strange as well. My nephew who is now 5 has been sleeping with a glow in the dark skeleton since he was 1. He took a sharpie to it about a year ago and colored him black but its still a skeleton lol!

That is so funny that your children scare you I can't wait until Aspen starts trying to do that to me as well. :)

by ashiepooh, Oct 13, 2008 02:37PM
hehe it's hilarious!  If you keep doing it to her, she will sure enough do it back to you!  Of course right now, isn't the best time for my kids to be doing that to me, since i'm pregnant again and my bladder seems to be full all the freaking time lol  almost pee my pants, ahahaha!  well worth it though!  LOL

by BabyHardiman, Oct 13, 2008 03:45PM
I think I would be afraid of the wild kids that go running through those things.  Was it crowded in there?

by alaysha, Oct 13, 2008 04:51PM
No it was Sunday 9:30pm on a school night. Hardly anyone was there other than my friends and I. I figured that there wouldn't be very many people there.

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