we were all riding in the car last night, october 30, 2008, looking for HALLOWEEN decorations. that’s a big deal (see previous entry). K/F are in the back seat, T is driving and i’m just riding along. T thinks he is being sneaky, having brought a handful of snack-size candy bars and surreptitiously unwrapping and eating them while driving.
K says, “dad, what are you doing?”
“nothing.”
“dad, what’s that noise?”
“nothing.”
“dad, what are you eating?”
“my dinner.”
“dad. . . . i smell candy.”
who gets points for winning that one?
ha.
not sneaky enough October 31, 2008
menards? October 28, 2008
menards
K is all over halloween. Every time we venture out of the house, on foot, in car, on bike, in stroller, we must search out halloween decorations. Then, when we find them, we must pause discuss them for at least 15 minutes, evaluating both their strong points and their deficiencies. We are halloween lurkers. In front of some houses, we have sat parked 3 or 5 or 7 times. Lurking.
And then we went to Menards.
Over the weekend, K, F and I went to buy a light fixture for our naked (and dim) dining room. Imagine our great surprise (!) and delight (!) when we saw not only a menagerie of halloween decorations, but little wonderland of CHRISTMAS TOO!!!!
We had to walk through, slowly, examining perusing pontificating. We were there for a longggg time. Even before we left, K was making plans to take dad back there to see everything. Indeed he asked 3 times that day if we could take dad back there, right now. But actually dad wasn’t even home; he was out of town for the weekend.
His favorite halloween thing was a little rock+roll skeleton with blue hair, a suit, and black boots. When the button was pushed, the little skeleton danced, sang, bobbed his head, and tapped his boot.
His favorite christmas thing was a blow-up chimney, into which an upside-down blow-up santa disappeared (and then re-appeared). Second favorite may have been the upside down christmas tree– pure novelty enjoyment.
Who would predict that such free fun could be found so close to home.
Menards.
