"Can I have candy for breakfast?" is how we started the day, the calmest of our 4-day Halloween fete.
No, candy is a snack, not a meal. And that's our rule. They can have two pieces at their two snack times, but not at meals (because then they won't eat as they wait for candy and I'm not getting into that two-more-bites tug o' war). All candy disappears at midnight Sunday, with most of it going to church that morning to share with our friends.
At school--where there was no candy allowed (nor costumes, for that matter)--they celebrated Pumpkin Festival. They had been making pumpkin decorations for a few weeks--those painted plates that they added faces to (remember, Sis meticulously painted solid orange to add a face later, but Bud rushed and just painted an orange face?), an orange-painted pumpkin, a pumpkin with pumpkin seeds glued on. They sang pumpkin songs, read pumpkin stories, even carved out a jack o'lantern (with Bud enjoying the scooping of the "icky guts"). They even painted pumpkins on their faces, with Sis opting in and Bud opting out. Then they had their pumpkin parade, with the previously-mentioned paper plate pumpkin faces glued to craft sticks held aloft. When we got home they reenacted the parade for me and for our babysitter. And put the cute teddy bear magnets that their student teacher made, complete with their names, on our magnetic wall. To hold up some of those paper pumpkins.
It was a great day, calm before the frenzied holiday storm of tomorrow and our church party on Saturday. Stayed tuned.
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