We had a great day yesterday: the spider cake (see below), pumpkin carving with Julie, and then the big event last night.My friend Julie and her son Max come over to visit every Wednesday afternoon. Being that my skin, for some reason, reacts really badly to touching raw pumpkin innards, Julie did the mucky work of pumpkin carving and I got to do the fun part of face carving. Emily was right in there to supervise.
And then the main event that Emily has been asking about for weeks (Is it Hallowe'en yet? When's Hallowe'en?). Emily started to gear up for the big event right when we sat down for
supper and kids started to arrive at the door (supper was a bit late last night). She was about to push her supper away and get right to it until I told her there was trick or treating if there was no supper.We ate up, had some spider cake and she donned the Baby Bop costume one more time. Emily was just as thrilled with it as the first time she wore it. I can't say enough how proud I am that I spent $3 on this costume second-hand and it couldn't have made her happier.
We just did our own street, which was more than enough. Emily was even more thrilled by all the comments she got from the big kids (14-year-olds: the original Barney generation) who recongized and LOVED her
Baby Bop costume. At 14 I would have had no idea who Baby Bop was. That would be because she hadn't been invented yet.After the candy collection, Emily had a great time handing out the candy, sorting her loot and then it was off to bed.
Another one down. Now the real challenge begins: how to responsibly dole out the candy. For those of you with kids who have a basket full of candy right now, how do you decide when and how much they are allowed to eat each day?
Oh, and you may have noticed I've completely lost my senses and decided to participate in NaBloPoMo. Yeah, I know, I'm not sure what I was thinking given that sometimes my posts are sporadic at best. Expect some photo montages.
5 comments:
She is precious! Love the costume - and what a deal, too!
The candy thing is easy in our house...the kids don't actually care about it! They just like collecting. Only problem...it leaves mom and dad to eat it all. Awful. I am chucking it all tomorrow!
Maybe you can let her select a few choice pieces, and then suggest she 'donate' the rest?
Heidi
Seeing as how Miss Emily does not have any money, donation of candy to those without may not be an option for her. : ) Getting to chose one or two pieces each day until it is gone will make it go a long way especially if she shares with her little friends who come to visit. In the meantime, some of it could mysteriously disappear over time. It seems so heartless to get to collect it and then not get to enjoy at least part of it. Also, good leverage for good choices.
Joan
what is nablomopo?
If you click on the icon on the right sidebar you'll find out more about NaBloPoMo. It is National Blog Post Month in November. If you sign up, you commit to posting every day. That's the gist of it.
I typically hide the Halloween candy and dole it out very slowly until there's nothing left but the gross candy that no one will eat and that goes in the green bin.
A while ago I read something, somewhere about putting the Halloween candy in ziploc bags and freezing it so you could use it as the child's Christmas stocking chocolate.
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