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My favorite Halloween candy.

I am the resident candy expert, since Ben doesn’t really like sweets very much. I don’t know a lot of different candies, but the ones I know I know. I delight in coaching Art through his choices as he sorts through his treat bag from Halloween. He can have two treats during every waking period. I suppose he could then get six treats a day if he took two naps instead of one!!! But I was disappointed to find that none of the houses we went to gave out Smarties! They are my favorite Halloween candy. I love the way they feel between my fingers – they are so smooth and fit so nicely! I used to like to have one stuck to my finger and one on my thumb and clap them together. And the little divet fits so nicely on the end of your tongue, too! Ah, Smarties. I could go on. I haven’t even talked about their lovely taste… Anyway, tongiht Art accompanied me to Walgreens to pick up a movie and I decided to run and look for Smarties, because i had told him about them being my favorite Halloween candy. They had them! I bought a bag and we opened them in the car. He ate one and said, “Mmmm. They’re sweet and sour.” Then he said something that just made me know he was my son. He said, “Mama, put them one on your finger. Put one on your finger, Mama, like this… That feels good.” That’s my boy.

Speaking of sweets, Art has been so very generous with his treat bag. Yesterday and today he shared a treat with me, saying that he had a lot so I could have one. Today he offered me another treat. I chose Butterfinger, but since he only had one I said I’d share it with him so he could try it. No, he said, he has a lot. I can have the whole one myself. And then he gave one to Ben and later shared with Lewis. I’m really proud of him for being so generous. And for noticing the fine details of a great Halloween candy.

Lewis loves to transfer things.

Lewis is obsessed with transferring things from one container to another. It’s a developmental need for mastery. If I give him a cup of water to drink and there’s a cup on the table nearby he will pour the new water into the other cup before drinking. Here he transferring flour from one cup to another. I thought he might like to help me make pizza dough, but this is all he wanted to do. And when he got bored/adept with the cups he was using he up and opened the utensil drawer to get new things. He’s good that way.

Worth the money.

This is the new water-saver toy we got. It’s usual home is suctioned against the kitchen sink, submerged in a small bowl of water. It’s basically a fountain, cycling water from the bottom up through the spout and back again, but it looks like a faucet and it’s easy enough for Lewis to use! In fact, the other day Lewis left it on and when I asked him to go in the kitchen and turn it off he dutifully walked from the living room to his stool at the kitchen sink and turned it off.

A memory I want to share with Lewis when he’s older.

I was just doing the dishes and thinking of the time when Lewis was unnamed and about three or four days old. Jess and I were at Turtle Bread bakery and had our tiny new baby in the car seat on the table (Art was at Bubbe’s house). We were discussing different names and admiring the tiny warm thing on the table. I remember thinking then that it was an extraordinary moment, to be sitting there with our baby, thinking what name might best fit this little person and his long life. A woman walked by and asked about the baby. It was funny to tell her we didn’t know his name, and we asked her what she thought of Lewis. She loved it.

Hugging a Steggo.

Unfortunately, this is the only picture we got of the full Stegosaurus costume today, but there will be more opportunities. Art’s preschool had a “party” during the last hour of school and he wore his costume. Also at the party was a T-Rex, Obi One Kanobe (sp!?), The Green Lantern, a princess, a butterfly and a Wild Thing.


Ms. Jen, Art’s teacher, just sent over this photo: