Old School Candy

We all remember the black and orange wrapped peanut butter taffy that is popular to give out on Halloween.  Kids dread it like the plague, yet it always seems to appear in your candy stash.  Well, Lucian received one piece from an older gent when trick or treating. Joe and I laughed and joked about it at the time.  I forgot about it until now.  Lucian pulled the single piece out of his candy bucket and opened it up.  First he pretended it was a partially unwrapped airplane as he flown in in small circles around his chair in the living room. Then he was trying to figure out how to consume it because it was in a harder state.  He pretty much stuck it in his mouth once or twice and then looked at me.  I asked him for a taste and took a small bit off the end to soften it a bit. He proceeded to do the same thing, but wasn't very intrigued about it. One bite was enough before he passed it off to me.  Great moment in history and it needed to be documented and shared.  I just wish I had a picture of the face he made when trying it - priceless.  I really need to empty my sd card and charge my camera!

Candy Monster Indeed

Lucian ended up being sick on Halloween. Luckily, trick or treating was postponed until the 1st of November due to the weather. So we ended up going out and having a good time. Joe had to work during most of the trick or treating times. I still took him out for a bit and then we picked Joe up and went a little bit longer. It was cold and Lucian was tired, so he didn't last much longer.  We still had a good time and ended up with a bucketful of candy that we are currently eating from at the moment. I'm excited for the point when the bucket is officially empty. As for costumes, Lucian sported a wreck it Ralph costume, Joe went as Fix it Felix, and I was Qbert. Lucian had a fun time and that was all that mattered. The best part of Halloween was finding out that Lucian knows how to open up candy wrappers. He was sitting in his car seat with a small bag of candy. I opened one piece for him and let him hold the bag since he couldn't open the wrappers. Well the joke was certainly on me when I realized he was back there opening up several pieces of candy and enjoying every last bite of sugar! Happy Halloween indeed!

Since then we have been trying to empty that pesky bucket of candy. I would definitely say he has eaten too much. At least we have been trying to get out and run off that energy. Since it has been colder outside and getting darker early, we've been trying to utilize indoor activities. We now have a membership to the Wonderlab, a local science museum for kids, and he absolutely loves it there. We would be there right now if he wasn't still pretty sick.  Every time we go it is at least a 2 hour adventure.  It would be more if it was up to Lucian.  Overall, I'd say it was a good idea. Soon, I'd like to take him to some open gym gymnastics.  I'm hoping between gymnastics, wonderlab, the library and animal shelter we can keep him fairly busy through the winter when it gets very cold and windy.  Now it's time to deal with the snot issue at hand!