Happy Halloween

Morning on this beautiful Halloween day in NJ!

Alan was funny this AM - he didn't think it was Halloween (maybe because it wasn't being mentioned on Noggin). So he wouldn't wear his costume. Until he got to school and saw his classmates. So I put it on before I left. Even his teachers were in costumer - the teacher as a (good) witch and the aide as Dora! (sometimes it must be fun to teach preschool!).

Yesterday was the class trip to the pumpkin patch. Alan had fun. I got to ride on the bus with him - on the way there we sat with a girl Alan knew from soccer who was in the PM class. On the way back we sat with a boy Alan had been in class last year with. One of the other moms pointed out he had no socks on - and today this boy had no costume and was crying (I felt bad too.)
Apparently the boys family doesn't celebrate Halloween (he's African, I believe) and the teacher had an extra costume for him in class and let him wear it home - she's very prepared after many years of teaching.

Alan had been bugging me about pumpkin pie all month - since reading a Dora book about it. So I finally made it yesterday - found a simple recipie on the pumpkin pie spice container - pie crust, canned pumpkin, eggs, sweetended condensed milk, pumpkin pie spice (the one on the pumpkin can had more spices which I didn't want to buy). He helped mix it a bit. He ate a little of it when I gave him some, then didn't like it. I thought it was good, not as spicy as some I've had. We brought the rest to school for the halloween party since I'd be the only one eating it.

And today I'm wearing my old navy shirt with a black cat, halloween socks with black cats and black cat earings. I have a children's place scrunchy with candy corn in my hair (I thought it was cute, even if I'm a grownup!) I miss having Moxie and Inky (my black cats) though. I always used to JOKE about sticking them in the window with suction cups for decorations. I have even bought Halloween black cats over the years that I thought looked like one cat or the other.

Back to work for now.

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Go trick-or-treating! Username:

Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
lesliepear goes trick-or-treating, dressed up in a star trek uniform.
cerulean_me gives you 10 light yellow apple-flavoured gummy worms.
chelona gives you 11 light blue chocolate-flavoured wafers.
christilyn gives you 8 green evil-flavoured jawbreakers.
datagoddess gives you 18 brown orange-flavoured gummy bats.
devi_pavarti tricks you! You get a 3.5-inch floppy disc.
dstroy gives you 8 orange licorice-flavoured jawbreakers.
ginky gives you 1 yellow root beer-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
lauredhel gives you 1 light blue cinnamon-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
marley_station gives you 16 green mint-flavoured gummy bats.
mighty_sam tricks you! You get a toothbrush.
lesliepear ends up with 73 pieces of candy, a 3.5-inch floppy disc, and a toothbrush.

Ugh

This was in a nice gift bag one of the mom's in Alan's class made:

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml08/08059.html

I e-mailed the teacher who said to send it in (and I attached a printout of the recall).

Fortunately Alan couldn't care less about it.