Halloween 2011

What better time to start updating my blog again than Halloween?  It seems like we have been celebrating Halloween for about a week straight (Kemmerer's Fall Festival, Trunk-or-Treat, school parties), and my kids already had so much candy before actually trick-or-treating that Jarrett couldn't even carry his own bag.  I guess at least now they have a stash for a couple of months...unless I get my hands on it, which, really, I'm trying not to. 

The boys had some really cool light sabers that their uncle Jesse gave them last Christmas so they decided to be Jedi.  And Jaycie was a cute little bumblebee.  Jarrett asked where her stinger was and Josey said she didn't have one; she was a nice bee.  I'm not so sure about that...  (FYI - she's a feisty little stinker whose redeeming qualities at this stage of her life are that she's REALLY cute and she takes long naps.)

I guess this is the way Jedi pose?

The only way I could even get her to look at the camera was to give her candy.

On Sunday Jarrett asked me "Is it Sunday today?"  "Yes," I replied, waiting for the usual pouty face and "Nooooo" that typically follows.  He surprised me by saying "Yay!"  I told him it made me really happy to hear him say that, but before I could even finish telling him that he added, "That means tomorrow is Halloween!" 

And this morning, on the day after Halloween, I let Jordan have a little leftover Halloween root beer with his breakfast just because that's the type of (bad) mom I am.  But when he wanted another treat, I put my foot down.  Then I got the "I wish you weren't the mom" response, which made me smile, because he really doesn't know how lucky he is.  Someday he'll appreciate me, I'm sure of it.  And until then, I guess I'll just have to keep eating all of his Halloween candy so he thinks I'm a mean mom.