Another great weekend
My parents came up for the weekend on Friday and left this morning. Although it would appear on a day-to-day basis that there's absolutely nothing to do in the neck of the woods we call home, we managed to have a crazy weekend anyway. Each day Henry's nap got later, as did his bedtime, but who wants to sleep when you can play with grandparents instead? The best part of the weekend occurred last night when, after months and months of coaxing, Henry finally said "Grandpa". And since he said it once, he decided to say it a lot. The saddest part of the weekend was this morning when he said "Bye-bye Grammy!" and waved as she went out the door. Henry said bye to his Grandpa after they were in the car and driving away. He's been asking for them all day.
Tomorrow is Halloween which means I have five million pumpkins to carve. I always set a lot out down near the sidewalk in order to lure kids to our part of the street. Most of the neighborhood is older and so there are a lot of porches with the lights turned off; people don't bother coming our way much. This year will be worse because our street's closed off due to construction. Of course none of this stopped Dave and I from stocking up on enough candy for 2000 kids, which led to the following conundrum at the store: do we buy candy we like because we're probably going to have lots left over, or do we buy candy we don't like because we're going to have lots left over? We bought candy we like, but probably we should have gone the other way.
Who am I kidding, we did the right thing. I plan on being in a Butterfinger/Snickers-induced sugar coma by nine o'clock tomorrow night and I'm looking forward to it!