Spiderman on Sugar!

Of course, Dana beat me to blogging. As is often the case, while Dad was busy blogging about life with Felix, I was in the midst of living in the moment with Felix. (Doh!) Felix wasn’t about to let me work on the computer, even if it was to tell loved-ones about him. Instead, when he saw that I too had pulled out the laptop, he quickly got between the computer and me and asked to play the writing game (Word). Among the various consonant laden illegible jumbles there were two very distinctly recognizable phrases “Cat and Hat” and “Dad and Mom”. To be fair, we switched roles halfway through the blogging competition. By then Felix was sick of mom and wanted only to engage dad in play. Dad, meanwhile was heavily invested in one of his many blog-rewrites so I had to wait to post my blog after his.

Felix is pictured here with his biggest admirer, Cinderella-April (you can almost see the hearts in her eyes) at the Active Moms And Tots Halloween Party that Grandma Peggie took him to. This was the year of true involvement in Halloween for Felix. He carved several pumpkins, almost totally by himself. He insisted on decorating (cobwebs everywhere) and had no fear of his own costume. He rearranged our garden graveyard many times, no longer too freaked by the zombie decorations. He had all the appropriate terms down, sometimes saying all parts of the script at once, “Trick or Treat. Happy Halloween. Thank you. Your Welcome.” I even heard him say to his best bud Charlie while waiting for a door to open, “Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat.” On Halloween night , he elected to go see a well-decorated house even though it was starting to sprinkle and when the rain came down heavier he chose to return home satisfied that he had collected enough.

When we got home he quickly removed his shoes and dumped his bag and said, “Now I get to eat my candy, right?” He has determined that peanut butter cups and tootsie rolls are his favorite candy, while Oreos still top his favorite ‘sugar food’ list. This morning's daylight savings extra hour was spent watching the scariest of Halloween scenes: Felix high on candy! He was drooling, running in circles, saying crazy things and generally acting like there is an impending crash involving tantrums and tears. (This is as far as I get in my blog as he has declared he’s going potty and my duty (pun intended) is to check to make sure he wiped properly.) Ah, the joys of motherhood.

Halloween V

I have just been informed that Renae and I will be having dueling blog posts as we both tripped over each getting to our laptops to blog about our Tru's Spiderman Halloween.
The days leading up to Halloween were wrought with worry as Felix was grappling with a cold and the threat of rain from the always looming rain clouds. Though even through the illness, Tru continued to show his excitement by decorating the porch with spiderwebs and spiders, and carving four of his own pumpkins.
Then, with the 31st upon us, Felix had conquered his cold and we spent the day in downtown Renton trick-or-treating the shops with friends Charlie and Clara, and enjoying a little carnival type thing with his friend April.
Our plan was to have Renae stay home to hand out candy while Felix trick-or-treated our neighborhood. But when Charlie and Clara stopped by for dinner they convinced us to join them in visiting cousin Rooney and trick-or-treating his neighborhood. The four friends, Felix, Rooney, Charlie, and Clara, had so much fun discerning the participating houses and eagerly running up to the doors. It was neat to see the camaraderie between these four in their mission to collect goodies. After about an hour, Felix wanted to get back to our neighborhood and hit some of those houses. We said goodbye to our friends and headed back home where Renae took him around.
The weather had been good all day, even a little warmer than past Halloweens; warm enough that our pumpkins were showing signs of mold days before they had in previous years. Though, as Renae and Felix were out, we got a bit of a downpour. I hurriedly blew out all the candles in the pumpkins, turned out our lights, and got in the car to drive around looking for them. I did find them when they were almost home, and by that time the rain had really subsided and they were fine. We can't complain, originally the forecast was for rain beginning at four o'clock, a little bit of a shower later in the evening was fine.
The next morning, Tru ate a bowl of cereal and then rushed over to his candy. He culled out the ones he didn't like and gobbled up a few of those he did like. Subsequently, we got to see, up close and personal, a sugar rush. Felix was literally running in circles in the family room, singing and saying non-sequiturs.