Random stuff

The Halloween season is here and I just recently dug myself out from under a huge pile of work. Apologies for the relative silence these past couple of weeks, but bathroom renovations + deadlines + travel + motherhood = 32-hour days. Physics and the time-space continuum being what they are, something had to give.

Halloween. DOM has learned the joy of Halloween. Our conversation earlier this week:

Me: "What are we going to do on Halloween?"
DOM: "Trick or treating!"
Me: "What do you say when you knock on someone's door?"
DOM: "Trick or treat!"
Me: "And then what happens?"
DOM: "I GET CANDY!!!"
Me: "And THEN what do you say?"
DOM: "Thank you!"

For DOM, life is divided into times when she gets candy, and regular boring days.

Preschool. DOM's day care is transitioning her into their beginning preschool class. It has more of a curriculum than the toddler class she has been in, with more of an emphasis on words and numbers. Now, her transition from infant to toddler room was traumatic for the whole family - tears, hysterics when we would drop her off in the toddler room, clinginess - and that was just me. She was pretty bad for a two week period, too. But from the first day of transition to preschool, she has not wanted to go back to the toddler room at all. As a matter of fact, they dispensed with the transition process and just had us start dropping her off and picking her up in the preschool room. I have my theories as to why this happens, but it doesn't really matter - it ain't broke, so I ain't fixin' it.

Halloween, part II. The thought did occur to me that this is the last time I will be able to pick out her Halloween costume for her. Next year, she will insist on being a princess/ballerina/Disney character/specific animal/dragon...whatever. So did I dress her up in the cutest costume I could find? Nope. I bought a costume that was warm, easy to put on and take off, and cost $6 on eBay. Best. Halloween. Ever.

The end is near. There is joy in Whoville, as DOM is almost potty trained. Just a few more weeks, and we may be able to bid farewell to the changing pad forever. Or she will be entering kindergarten in pull ups.

A random observation. Courtesy of Mr. MOM. While watching 123 Sesame Street on Noggin on the weekends, we notice that there seem to be only about 5 episodes of Elmo's World in their rotation: singing, drawing, plants, dancing, and hair. I KNOW there are a lot more than that...c'mon Noggin - we're getting bored!

Speaking of Sesame Street... Here is my all-time favorite Sesame Street exchange (courtesy of SesameBeat.com):

Alan: "I have some rice cakes."
Cookie: "What me look like, rice cake monster? No, me Cookie Monster. Me need cookie!"

Toodle-oo! Happy Halloween and Dia de los Muertos, y'all!