Queen of Rambles

This is one of my favorite pictures in a very long time! Isn’t he just a beautiful child? He’s so handsome it almost makes me want to cry! I think I’m going to get this blown up into an 8×10 and frame it, even if he does have frosting all over his face.

He was a greaser, which turned out to be the best costume of the day! Sure, all the other kids looked cute in the dino-tiger-franken-cheer-princess suits, but guess how many of them had their costume on by the end of the party? Just the cheerleader and Erik. He also had a leather jacket and a box of Nerds rolled up his sleeve, but those parts of the costume disappeared pretty quickly.

I really think I should start gelling his hair back. I think it makes him look so cute, but I don’t want to put chemicals all over his head on a regular basis. Maybe I can find some organic mumbo jumbo. Mike thinks I’m nuts.

Ghosts in the Graveyard! I made this spooktacular dessert, but it was barely touched at the party so most of it is in the fridge waiting for me to gorge on it. It has a layer of pecan crust, a layer of sickly purple cream cheese/sugar/whipped topping, a layer of chocolate pudding, a layer of green whipped topping, and then the chocolate crumbs with the design. I’m not an artist at all so the path didn’t turn out nearly as cool as the one in the pic I was working from, but I was still impressed with my mad Halloween skillz. I love Halloween! I was really surprised only one other mom dressed up at the party. I guess I’m glad I didn’t go too overboard on my costume! (No pics of me, but maybe tomorrow someone from the party will e-mail out their pics and I’ll be able to snag one.)

Trick-or-treating aftermath! Erik spent almost an hour moving his candy from one pumpkin to another. He never did figure out that he could eat the candy. Yet more junk for me to gorge on, unless I tell Mike to take it all to work. I guess I should, but will I have the will power? I’ve been thinking about trying to go sugar-free for the next three weeks to try to detox myself until pumpkin pie day hits. It won’t be easy with all this crap in the house.

I didn’t know what Erik would think of trick-or-treating, but it was a huge hit! We started out in the apartment complex, but quickly got frustrated as only about 1/8 of the people would even bother to open their doors. What a bunch of curmudgeons! The porch lights come on automatically so there was no way to tell who wanted to have little goblin guests and who didn’t.

I finally loaded Erik up in the car and drove a couple of blocks to the nice neighborhood. Everyone and their dog did the same thing, so it took a while to find a parking spot. At first Erik made me carry him around and I was about to call quits on the whole thing, but then it suddenly all clicked in his head and he was running from house to house, knocking on the doors. He would rub his chest in the “please” sign, but no one caught on to that. He wouldn’t say trick-or-treat or thank-you, but he is just barely two. Hopefully he’ll have better manners next year. If not, I guess he can stay home.

If you are REALLY craving a cute kid fix, you can take a gander at our post-Halloween video. Erik didn’t even have any candy tonight and he’s still acting like a maniac. Of course, he acts like that pretty much all the time so I guess it’s not just the candy that makes a kid crazy.

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