Trick or Treat '09 Pictures

I know. Halloween was 2 weeks ago and I am running very late getting these up. But, like I have mentioned the last 2 weeks or so have been more than a little busy for me. Better late than never though. Here are our pictures.

First the costumes:

We went to Roseau for trick or treating on main street and then headed to DQ for dinner. Talon was not feeling well so he almost didn't get to do anything more. But he begged and I gave in. I told him only 1 hour and then home for an early bedtime. He said "deal".

Out we went after dinner to trick or treat around the town. Notice how amused this first lady is by me being dressed up.

This next pictures are funny because of the story behind them. First the spider. Talon went walking through the yard after getting candy and my husband yelled at him to watch were he was going. He looked down and screamed at the site of this huge spider at his feet. He almost dropped his candy. We were laughing about it for the rest of the night.

This next picture is of a cat. This cat was doing tricks in honor of the holiday. I went walking past the tree and the cat scared me. almost as bad as the spider scared Talon. I did not scream, or drop the candy but I jumped back about 3 steps as my husband laughed his butt off. 

Happy Halloween and Blessed Samhain to everybody from all of us. (Even Hubby who is hiding behind the camera)

Halloween Party at Doug's Supermarket

We went to "Doug's Supermarket Annual Free Halloween Extravaganza" on Friday October 16th. They had many more activities that I thought they would, and many more children showed up that I expected. Think Walmart on a Sunday afternoon.

Here are the activities that we participate in:

First we stopped by the Police department Safety booth for a sticker an a coloring book.
Second we stopped by the coloring contest. Both kids sat down and colored a picture for the contest.








Next up was Guess the weight of the pumpkin. Talon Guessed 40lbs.
Sitting next to the Pumpkin was a booth with bug juice for the kids, no literally bug juice.

Green kool-aid with a gummy worm in it. I chose to pass on this but the kids enjoyed it. expecially Wyatt.


On to the bakery department where there was a cooking decorating station.



I made wyatt one but he never chose to eat it.

In the produce section there was someone making caramel apples so we got one for each kid (still sitting in the refrigerator by the way.

In the meat department they were serving Octopus hot dogs





One little 4 year old girl made the point that they were not real octopus because they didnt have enough legs. smart little girl.

In the Back of the store they had a Oreo Stacking contest. Talon stacked up 18 cookies in 30 seconds. The darn clown kept getting in the way so I didn't get good pictures

Both the kids got an Oreo and we moved on.


In the freezer section they were doing temporary tattoos




Next door in the dairy section they had a milk mustache contest. they used whipped cream for the effect.




Time for Ice Scream! er Ice cream! They had all the fixings for Banana splits so the kids got ice cream with chocolate on it.




Finally they were doing hay rides every 15 min. Talon was very excited but confused as to why they called it a hay ride when we were sitting on straw bails.


wyatt... not so much. he was not happy that we were on this trailer until we started to move. then every thing changed and the whole idea was very interesting.




We ended the morning (yes, we took the hay ride at exactly 12pm) and had lunch at the DQ and got Wyatt home just in time for his 1pm nap. He went almost right to sleep too.

a big day, only the one minor meltdown waiting for the hay ride to start. I even picked myself up a banana split blizzard at DQ as a prize for being an awesome mom and getting through an outing with everyone still in one piece.

By the way Suprise! Wyatt won the coloring contest for his age group. He won a fee movie rental from the store. Talon is bummed that he didn't win anything. But I explained that I think Wyatt was the only 2 year old to enter a picture so he won by default

Wyatt's video

I had to share this. It is not the best quality video because i took it on my blackberry. But it makes me smile everytime I watch. This is Wyatt singing his little heart out with a guitar toy.

Talon begins his new school

The day started out very good for Talon. He woke up and was dressed before I even woke up this morning. I gave him his half loaf of Cherry Bread for breakfast and a glass of milk. He finished up eating about 7:10, got his teeth brushed and fed his dog. Then he was sitting there playing his gameboy when I decided he didnt need to get into that habit before school and got Wyatt ready to go outside. We got outside just after 7:30 and the kids played for about 15 min and then we walked up to the road to wait.

We waited until 8:15 and no bus, so I ran down the drive, grabbed the van and loaded the kids off. I got to the school parking lot at 8:20 just as the late bell was wringing. The office apologized and we walked down to Talon's classroom.

Back in the office we tried to figure out why we were forgotten. She said there were a couple of kids that got missed and that it sometimes happens on the first day. She pulled out the bus schedule and.....

The bus gets to our house at 7:26. We had just missed it, if it showed up at all. But, now we know and I will set his school alarm for 7:20 so that gives him plenty of time to get out the door and make it down the driveway to catch the bus.

What a better way to start the day?

My husband and I take turns waking up god awful early in the morning with the kids. Ok, 6 and 7 am isn't way to early for normal people but when you dont go to bed until 1am it is still a rough start.

ANYWAY...

I was my turn to sleep in today and I was happy because Sunday was a rough day at work and left me exhausted. I even went to bed early that night at about 11pm. The entire family came to wake me up and then Yaz went to smoke a cancer stick outside and Talon went to do... something. Wyatt stayed in the room snuggling with me. When he had enough snuggle time he took my hand and tried to pull me out of bed.

I said "Oh hunny, Mommy isn't quite awake yet. Why don't you go upstairs and play while I wake up some more."

He pulled another couple of times on my arms and went on upstairs. As I am laying in bed thinking of what I was needing to do today I hear him coming back down the stairs. (my headboard is along the side of the steps so I could not see him). Next thing I know a cup of something very cold and wet is on my pillow and hair. I yell, grab the cup and run after the little shit who was in the kitchen before I could get up the stairs. I yelled about spilling the drink on mommy, gave him 3 swats on the diaper (yes I am one of the moms that believes that spanking your child is fine) and went back to my room to change my clothes.

As I start to dry off my hair I realize that Wyatt did not pour water on me, it was milk. So as well as changing my clothes, I had to strip the bedding (2 pillows, a quilt and the fitted sheet) and take my shower a bit earlier that I had planned. And it didn't help having Yaz almost rolling on the floor because he was laughing so hard at me.

School shopping

Talon went shopping today for his back to school stuff. He surprised me by getting everything in green. Before now he has always said that he hated the color. When I asked why he got everything in green he says "Well, I think I'm kinda getting use to it. Now I kinda like it." So, here he is, with his very green school supplies.