At Least He Makes Me Laugh

Ryan has been watching football with Jay every week this year. He loves it and he is really into the Ravens. It's been cool to watch them bond over football. It has also been Ryan's first real exposure to commercials. [On a side note: I can't believe some of the commercials and previews they show in the middle of the afternoon! Thank God for DVRs so we can pause and skip some of those.] Aaaaanyway, it's funny to watch his reaction to some of the commercials. When he finds something really funny he laughs so hard. For some reason he and Jay find the "money you could be saving" Gieco commercial hilarious.
So the other day Ryan says to Jay, go look over there. He points and says, "Da, duh, duh, duh," his best impression of the Gieco song. This is what he was pointing to...

I'm not sure what amused me more, the joke, Jay's reaction, or Ryan's reaction to Jay's reaction. It was all quite funny.

The Never Ending Fuss

I feel like I've been living in the world of the never ending fuss. I swear almost every word that has come out of Ryan's mouth in the past 2 weeks has been a whine, a complaint or a plain old fuss about something. I've had it up to my eyeball with fussing. I thought he had turned acorner this morning when he woke up cheerfully before I even went to get him. He even leaned over to me this morning and whispered, "I'm trying to be extra nice to Lily and not tease her." He cheerfully let her have her way when she was being a little stubborn. Usually that's the time he digs in his heels. I was so happy.
Too bad I had to run errands after he got home. It may have been the worst shopping trip we ever had. There was fussing, chasing, blatant disobedience, rolling on the floor, climbing on the foam pads, etc, etc. I want my Ryan back!!!

You Be Bruno, Okay?

I wonder if anyone else's children play that way. We're watching Dancing with the Stars. Lily has worn two three different princess dresses and danced a different routine to every song. She's convinced Ryan to join her for some of them. He likes to try to imitate the moves of the dancers. It's so stinkin' cute. I got to be the judges. Ryan told me to say what I really think, "even if it's 1,2,1." Too funny. I wish he would let me sign him up for ballroom dancing lessons, but alas, he has no interest. Maybe when the hormones hit ;-) Wait...Did I just have a moment of looking forward to male hormones hitting my house?! I take that back!

Halloween

Ryan decided to be Anakin without any trouble in the end and he was happy. He was really happy to run into his friend Luke at Trunk or Treat and be able to have a light saber battle. There were also some great adult Star Wars costumes.
Lily wore her Sleeping Beauty outfit (minus the crown) in the morning. We took it off to eat lunch and after that she wanted to be Cinderella, but the only dress up shoes she has that are good to walk in are Sleeping Beauty ones. She wanted to carry Ryan's Cars "pumpkin" from last year. She was quite a mix.
My costume was more subtle, I was a tourist. I wore a Paris shirt and my camera. I wanted to wear a touristy hat, but I didn't have one that I thought worked.
The best part about Halloween this year? It didn't cost me one cent. I had a huge bag of mini-tootsie pops that I had bought as rewards for my kids. Realizing we wouldn't get through the whole bag in a reasonable amount of time I decided to use that to give out to trick or treaters. I also pulled out the candy my kids don't like from the loot they had gotten earlier in the day. I hate throwing all that candy away, but if no one in your house eats it what else can you do? I thought giving it to kids who might appreciate it was a good solution. It wasn't bad candy, just stuff like Laffy Taffy, Whoppers, Blow Pops and Tootsie Rolls and I checked it before I gave it out, too. I did feel a little bit bad about "re-gifting" candy, so when I did I gave out handfuls instead of one piece.
Now my only problems are that I didn't really take "costume shots" of the kids and what to do with all the candy they got from 3 rounds of Trick or Treating. They sure had fun, but there is so. much. candy! I think I'll help them with the chocolate bars;-)

The Great Costume Debate

Ryan wants to be a skeleton for Halloween. Every year we go to Trunk or Treat at our church. They have a rule about no scary or gory costumes. To me a skeleton is scary. Jay doesn't think so. So he asked the lady at the information counter on Sunday. She is dressing as a witch. Seriously?! She thinks witches aren't scary? I'll give you that Glenda the good witch of the North is not scary, but I'm thinking that's not what she is talking about. What do you think? Skeleton-scary or not?

In an attempt to get Ryan to change his mind (and also use a costume we already have) I suggested Anakin Skywalker. He then decided to be Count Dooku. At least if he went as Dooku some people would just assume he was a Jedi. I could probably live with Dooku, but where do I get that costume?! I can't even find a Luke Skywalker costume for kids. For adults, yes, kids not a one. Plenty of Anakin, even some with creepy masks, but he doesn't want to be Anakin. Needless to say I'm not ready for Halloween tomorrow.