two good eggs

Poppy goes shopping

In the pre dinner craze the other night:

I was upstairs fiddling around on the computer; Poppy milling around my legs.  Dave and kids had just returned from the usual "what are we going to eat pre dinner shop"

It's always such a mad time.  Tempers fading, agravation growing as we gear up for the great hustle through dinner, into the bath and into bed. 

Dave yells up from the kitchen "That varmint!  That's why the groceries were so expensive!" 

He comes up stairs to show me a beautiful fruitcake that has somehow ended up in the shopping basket.   Poppy looks pleased and grabs the fruitcake and craddles it tenderly. 

Funny, because she's obviously had this in mind for some time.  I shopped with her a few weeks back and she'd tried the same trick; grabbing the fruitcake and putting it in my basket.  I'd just thought it was a random shiny thing but obviously it held real appeal to her  (yuck!) and she'd continued to think about it in the meantime!   

Strangely, it's existence has now slipped her mind.  Which is good because judging by it's diminishing girth, it looks like Dave was happy about it afterall.  Maybe that explains the heartburn.  hehe

Requisite Halloween pictures

Finn went as 'Luke Skywalker'  He wrestled with this quite a bit.  I'd made the top for him last year when he was deeply involved in the whole Star Wars thing.  Last year he tried it on over top of his down vest and he looked just like a portly Willam Shatner playing Luke.  I laughed and he decided that he'd go as something else instead. 

This year he spent some of his allowance at the dollar store and bought a pretend lightsaber.  This spurred on a re-interest in all things Star Wars and he tried on the costume again.  He decided to go with it, much to my relief because all of his other suggestions involved a LOT more work!  He still hummed and hawed up until he left for school yesterday morning, feeling that kind of nervous apprehension and excitement about his costume that I remember quite well. 

Poppy too went out last night and she was a hilarious little fairy trouper.  Stomping along in her red rubber boots, a tiara jammed onto her wool toque.  It took her all of one house to figure out the game plan and she would reach her hand in fast to grab the loot with hardly even a 'dahdah' (thankyou).  She kept repeating through about 15 houses "Ah no home, uh-uh" (meaning she wasn't going home). 

When we got home and the booty was well poured over and sorted from most desirable to least.  Poppy grabbed a chocolate foil covered eyeball and yelled "Ah eet ahbaw!"  Finn deposited much of his candy into our candy bowl and the record number of trick or treaters decimated our 150 pieces in no time!