Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Happy Halloween
Costume pictures to come later....Here are some pumpkin-carving pics to tide you over:
Friday, February 12, 2010
Halloween in February
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Happy Halloween
What a sugarfest! We've had to peel the kids off the ceiling and tie them down to their beds to get them off their sugar highs these past two days. Just kidding. Kind of.
It's been party-city around here. Z's preschool is too PC to observe ANY holidays (sad), but B's school had a costume parade on Friday. We went from there to another costume parade at M's work, and from there to a family bowling night sponsored by B's school, where there was yet another costume parade.
On the big day itself, we went to a Halloween party at a neighbor's house, then I took the kids trick-or-treating while M rushed home to hand out candy to all three kids that rang our doorbell. It was a beautiful night -- the best trick-or-treating weather I can remember since B was born. There was a nearly-full moon, and the temperature was in the 50s. Most neighbors even shoveled all that snow off their sidewalks for the kids!
B went as Luke Skywalker (of course), and Z was a chicken, thanks to Lisa, whose Emme wore this adorable chicken costume last year. A friend of M's suggested he should've gone as Colonel Sanders. He hangs out with some sickos.
In the past, we used to hold onto B's candy & dole it out 2-3 pieces a night, after a good dinner had been eaten. Last year we decided to put him in charge, with a few ground rules like no candy before breakfast. It was gone in about a week. We decided to go with that again. Think about it -- even if some of the candy mysteriously disappears overnight (which we couldn't pull over on B anymore -- he knows there are exactly 78 pieces of candy in that pumpkin), if you dole it out 2-3 pieces a night, you have Halloween candy in the house until Christmas, when new candy enters. You dole that out, and next thing you know, it's Valentine's Day. Then there's Easter (which everybody knows offers THE BEST CANDY OF THE YEAR!!!). You end up with candy every night for six months. That's a habit folks!
So we laid out the four following ground rules. Inside of these, the monkeys can consume as much candy as they want to, whenever (although the volume in Z's pumpkin is going to be mysteriously cut in half overnight tonight -- I'll be eating candy at work all week). The rules are:
1. No candy between waking up & eating breakfast.
2. No candy during the hour before dinner.
3. No candy wrappers anywhere but the trash can.
4. Candy must be kept on a shelf inside the closet, with the door shut, when not being actively consumed (think of the damage Kenai could do with a 78 pieces of candy)
It's been party-city around here. Z's preschool is too PC to observe ANY holidays (sad), but B's school had a costume parade on Friday. We went from there to another costume parade at M's work, and from there to a family bowling night sponsored by B's school, where there was yet another costume parade.
On the big day itself, we went to a Halloween party at a neighbor's house, then I took the kids trick-or-treating while M rushed home to hand out candy to all three kids that rang our doorbell. It was a beautiful night -- the best trick-or-treating weather I can remember since B was born. There was a nearly-full moon, and the temperature was in the 50s. Most neighbors even shoveled all that snow off their sidewalks for the kids!
In the past, we used to hold onto B's candy & dole it out 2-3 pieces a night, after a good dinner had been eaten. Last year we decided to put him in charge, with a few ground rules like no candy before breakfast. It was gone in about a week. We decided to go with that again. Think about it -- even if some of the candy mysteriously disappears overnight (which we couldn't pull over on B anymore -- he knows there are exactly 78 pieces of candy in that pumpkin), if you dole it out 2-3 pieces a night, you have Halloween candy in the house until Christmas, when new candy enters. You dole that out, and next thing you know, it's Valentine's Day. Then there's Easter (which everybody knows offers THE BEST CANDY OF THE YEAR!!!). You end up with candy every night for six months. That's a habit folks!
So we laid out the four following ground rules. Inside of these, the monkeys can consume as much candy as they want to, whenever (although the volume in Z's pumpkin is going to be mysteriously cut in half overnight tonight -- I'll be eating candy at work all week). The rules are:
1. No candy between waking up & eating breakfast.
2. No candy during the hour before dinner.
3. No candy wrappers anywhere but the trash can.
4. Candy must be kept on a shelf inside the closet, with the door shut, when not being actively consumed (think of the damage Kenai could do with a 78 pieces of candy)
Friday, October 31, 2008
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Halloween II
The costume:
The haul:
That's more candy than he's had in his whole almost-four years. And he doesn't even realize that I took out half the candy he got in the parade yesterday. I'm handing it out to the stragglers who are still ringing our doorbell.
Halloween I
Halloween excitement is in full-swing here. A couple nights ago, B and his dad made cookies with the Halloween cookie cutters B's Nana sent. They underestimated how much the cookies would spread during cooking when they arranged them on the pan, so they came out looking like one giant cookie blob. Actually, they're ghosts, pumpkins and bats. And they're delicious.
Yesterday afternoon, M's work had a Halloween parade for the kids. They all dressed up in their costumes & trick-or-treated around the office. I never saw so much candy. He's got more candy in his pumpkin already than he'll get tonight. I have a feeling a significant portion of it is going to mysteriously disappear when he's not looking. I wouldn't be surprised if it reappeared right back at M's office. Wouldn't that be something?
After the big parade, we came home and carved the smallest of the three pumpkins. We'll do the other two tonight. They're pretty big, and we grew them ourselves in the backyard. B's Nana also sent him a pumpkin carving knife (one that he can't actually stab anyone with, or use to cut off his own fingers), so B did quite a bit of carving himself.
B's other grandma sent some Dairy Queen gift certificates, enough so that B can take all three of us out for ice cream. He's very excited to go get a "banana splat." Heh.
Check back later tonight for Halloween II, when the costume will finally be unveiled.
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