Happy Halloween - Part 2

Happy Halloween!

It's a beautiful, beautiful day in Colorado ~ mid 70s, sun is shining, and bright blue skies!!! This is supposed to be the warmest Halloween in Colorado in 60-something years!!! Our little pirate and our little astronaut will be able to trick-or-treat tonight without snow suits, hats, and gloves to cover up those expensive, I mean, cute costumes...and I won't freeze my ass off following them up and down the street. Okay, that's a lie...I never go with them when it's cold... I make Scott do it...so, really he won't freeze his ass off this year and I might just be able to go along for fun :o)...it's a wonderful thing!
Both kids woke up before the sun was up and were ready for school with time to spare...that's an unusual event in our house! Unfortunately, I made the decision to let Ben have a sucker after breakfast ~ because it is Halloween, after all! Heeellloooo!! He rewarded me for my generosity by puking down the front of him on the way to his school. I admit...smooth move on my part, huh. Crap! Lesson learned! :o) It was definitely a too-much-sugar combined with driving in the car, combined with all the excitement of Halloween ~ after he 'spit-up', he was running around and playing...so I know he feels fine. We are headed to the Bergs house later this evening to trick-or-treat and I think Ben is going to find most of his candy mysteriously disappear when we get home ~ clearly, he can't handle that much sugar :o)

Something we learned about both of our children this year ~ they take after me and HATE all things scary. Like me, they can't handle it! Cailey: The kids at school told Cailey about the Bloody Mary myth ~ turn around 13 time saying 'Bloody Mary' and then look in a mirror...Bloody Mary is supposed to appear in the mirror and either scratch your eyes, pull you through the mirror, or slit your throat. It's a story even I heard (and tried) when I was little ~ which I told Cailey...but she was still so freaked out that she wouldn't go to sleep. I tried covering the mirror in her room ~ she wouldn't accept the idea that, even if it were true, she had to turn around 13 times first and if she didn't do that then Bloody Mary wouldn't appear...geeessshhhh! But, she was still scared and ended up in our room shortly after we all went to bed. Ben: Ben is completely scared of all scary and spooky sounds! It's actually sort of funny and I must admit I get a kick out of his reaction when we put the Spooky Halloween Sounds CD on...which we put on more now that we know how much it scares him :o) Oh, come on...you know you would think it was funny, too.

Have a safe and fun Halloween!

Happy Halloween - Part 1

Ben had a small Halloween 'parade' through his school today. They also had a party with lots of treats. Not sure why they had it today because they are doing one tomorrow, too. Maybe it's to accommodate the part-time students. Oh, well. Ben will have two big Halloween days. Unfortunately, he's not as excited about wearing his costume as I thought he would be ~ that figures. I think he will get more excited tomorrow when he sees Cailey, Matt, and Zach dressed up. Cailey will have a big day with school-wide parade and classroom party. Then, we are going trick-or-treating with the Bergs and Ben and Cailey are already excited about that. Cailey will be dressed as a pirate, Ben is an astronaut/'rocket ship driver'. I am going to be a witch...okay, let the one-liners begin. I don't know if Scott is going to dress up? Hmmm...I guess I should find out. :o) Just a couple of pictures from today's parade.

Re-dedication

Cailey's Brownie re-dedication ceremony was tonight ~ they were re-dedicated as Brownies for another year! Yeah, Cailey. They also helped bridge the Daisy troop into Brownies. So cute.



After the ceremony, Cailey and I had to rush home and gather up the yummy spaghetti dinner I made for Lisa and her family. I am part of a baby sitting co-op and one of the extra things we do is make a meal for the new moms in our group. Happily, this group is fertile and a new baby has arrived about every month recently. Unhappily, this means I have to fit in extra dinners and delivery to my already super busy schedule. I like doing the meals, though. I can only imagine how nice it would have been to have 20 or so meals delivered after the birth of my children...yes, I can only imagine since I am not having any more babies and I don't get to take advantage of this particular perk ~ that sucks...that really sucks :o) Then, we had to pick up Ben from school, drive to Castle Rock, hold the new baby (of course), and then come home and get our own dinner prepared and served. Ugh...it was a late night. I am tired, tired, tired.

Happy Birthday, Ed!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ED! HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT DAY!! WE LOVE YOU!

Ready To Run

Cailey had a Fun Run at school yesterday. Thankfully, it was a warm and beautiful October day for a run! She completed seven laps in the 30-40 minutes they were alloted ~ her goal was eight...but she still seems very happy with her seven. She did a little running, a little walking, a little walking/running backwards, a little skipping and twirling (it is Cailey, after all!), and a lot of smiling. Cailey was very tired after the run and felt a little sick to her stomach ~ I think it's because they didn't give them enough water during their run...but that's my opinion.

She will be home all next week for Fall Break and I am sure she will be bbbooorrreedd. Maybe I will find something that we can do in the afternoon.

Careful...

Short story: Scott was driving with Cailey and Ben. They got caught in a traffic jam because of a car accident. The police were directing traffic but, apparently, not very well. While driving past, Scott yelled out the window, "Get your head out of your ass!" Ben decided to put his two cents in and yelled, "Yeah! Get your head out of your glass!" HA HA HA HA...careful what you say, Daddy! Scott said he was expecting Ben to say 'ass', but thankfully Ben thought it was 'glass'!

I won! I won! I won!

I finally ventured into the world of eBay. I really wasn't resistant to it, I just haven't found anything on eBay that I really, really wanted that would give me reason to sign up and go through the 'hassle'...until now.

Ben wants to be an astronaut or, more specifically, a 'rocket ship driver', for Halloween. So, I have been searching online for a costume. I have gone to Target, Walmart, Toys R Us, Party City, and a Halloween store in search of a costume for Ben. I have tried to convince him to try a Buzz Lightyear costume ~ that's a sort of astronaut, right? No, apparently not. I have tried to convince him to try Spiderman, Batman, a pirate...anything. But, no. He is sure he wants to be an astronaut. He's such a good boy and I really don't buy him much...he isn't into toys that much and I have so many hand-me-down clothes for him that I rarely buy him new clothes. It was killing me that I couldn't come through for him on this one request. I could only find the astronaut orange flight suit in an almost-too-small-size at the Halloween store ($30.00 and it does not include a helmet). Still, I tried it on Ben and he said, "That's not an astronaut!" ~ he didn't understand the whole 'flight suit' thing...he wants the helmet and 'space suit'!!! So, I caved and ventured onto eBay yesterday. I found this costume:

Ben thought this was the best costume EVER! Unfortunately, I couldn't just click a button and buy it ~ it had 5 hours left in the bidding. So I called Juli ~ the eBay buying expert, in my opinion ~ and she gave me tips on bidding for items and getting set up in eBay and PayPal. I made my first bid with 30 minutes left in the bidding and then waited...biting my nails and counting down the seconds until the bidding ended ~ hoping some loser didn't swoop in at the last minute and outbid me before I could make a counter bid! At 9:45 last night, I became the proud owner of the little rocket ship costume and I could finally say..."I WON!!!" Funny how paying for an item, a used item at that, can make you feel like you won the lottery and smile and cheer while you actually hand over your money. This is how they should do taxes...you should have to outbid someone else on the amount you are willing to pay...then when you 'win' you will gladly hand your money over. Okay, clearly there are some holes in that idea...but it could be worked out. This 'bidding' stuff puts a whole new perspective on paying for stuff :o) As a bonus, I didn't pay as much as I thought I would for this item so I bought another eBay item...the astronaut helmet!!! The one that comes with the rocket ship is more than a little dorky ~ you have to admit, this one is much better and worth the extra money :o)

I feel like the best mommy in the world right now! I can't wait until they arrive and Ben can put them on!