The Connell Chronicles: He won't remember, will he?

BOO!

I betta get to posting a blog before it has to be infinity long!

Halloween came and went before we knew it!! As much as I like the holidays, I think that I was sooo madly anticipating the winter months that now they are flying right by! I mean, TWO WEEKS until Brady’s SECOND birthday? Say it isn’t so!

This year the little monster was the beloved monster himself, ELMO.

We must hydrate before anything we do :)

I can’t wait until he can pick what he wants to be for Halloween! Believe it or not throughout the planning process that begins in the summer time of conjuring up just what spectacular creation he will be for Halloween, I do think about the fact that he will have access to these pictures in the later years when he is picking my retirement lake house out :). Of course, my pranking and sarcastic self has envisioned what would be some of the funniest costumes ever, but I will not embarrass my child for a giggle or two, or three ;). Last year, it was all about juuuuuust hooooow cuuuuuuute you can make a one year old! 'MEMBER THIS??

However this year, he is older, and he has a ~~VERY LOUD~~ opinion. Not that he could have cared less what I stuffed him into for Halloween, but he does have things that he likes more than others so I wanted to take that into perspective. Poor guy though, I know he likes Elmo but by God I hope he LOVES the little furry guy because he batted an eyelash at the TV one time and I am stuffing him in a red furry snowsuit and fixing to make it rain Elmo in his room.. AND YOU WILL SEE AFTER NEXT WEEKEND what his birthday theme is, IF YOU CAN’T GUESS lol. Honestly, he can’t care, not one bit.. but I want him to like his room, or his costume, or his party so if he has even grimaced a smile at the TV with the high talking Elmo, then ELMO IT IS! :)

Mom had TWO mom fails in the matter of two days over the Halloween weekend prior to the actual Halloween (did y’all hear about the controversy trying to get Halloween to be on the last weekend of the month, I heard there was a petition for the last Friday, and a petition for the last Saturday! I for one say, HELL TO THE YES!! That would be awesome!). However, little guy cared for nothing but the big fat tootsie roll pops that covered his perfect little face….

But I can imagine that once the candy hoarding happens in his later years that dealing with an overtired, still suffering from a sugar crash from 8 hours (if you are lucky they might get 8 hours of sleep) before youngster will not be a fun thing to encounter on a morning before school when Halloween lands on a school night. No thank you!

So back to my glorious, fell flat on my face fails for this “devilish” holiday this year..

Fail #1- We went to our first trunk or treat that my sister in laws parents participate in this year at their church! Brad scored some free UT tickets to the game so he took his mom so he didn’t go with us. It was a blast, well the going from car to car part was then trying to explain to a 23 month old why he can’t get into a bouncy house (he is fatal attraction in love with bouncy houses) with a bunch of older kids that would have quadruple bounced him from here to Mars, that was about as much fun as well.. nothing. I did, however, get some great pictures of our little guy’s first year reaching for the candy, learning very quickly that if there is a person with a candy bowl that that means they are no longer a stranger and you can walk straight up to them but only on Halloween in your momma’s presence. Oh no wait a second, no I didn’t, I didn’t get one cute picture. Why? Because I left the memory card in the uploader at home, that is why. And my oh so nice camera let me shoot these pictures until about the 10th picture it says, HEY DUMMY THERE IS NO CARD IN THE CAMERA! Well, I could have been taking those pictures with my phone camera if it would have told me on the first picture that my idiot self had left the card at home, but nooooo... You are talking cuuuuuute pics. too with an adult Elmo and adult Sesame Street characters and him going right up to them, and all I have is this one with my phone….

The fails keep coming-

Fail #2- Who needs a pumpkin? Kinda like who needs a Christmas tree for Christmas? Or a heart for Valentine’s? I mean seriously, there doesn’t need to be a rabbit for Easter? UH YES THERE DOES! And I can only hope that I don’t “forget” to put up the tree at Christmas, or buy my “sweet-tarts” a heart shaped something or other for Valentine’s.. or forget to put out the Easter basket for the good ol’ bunny this year. Why do you ask am I saying all of this? BECAUSE I DIDN’T BUY A FREAKING PUMPKIN FOR US TO CARVE! Who does that? Last year we had pumpkins like crazy, everywhere, when we went to find our perfect pumpkin to carve and the perfect little pumpkin patch for our balancing toddler to not care one bit about! Remember this?

Here, I'm touching it, let's go :).

Well I hope it’s remembered because I don’t have one to compare for this year! We went to the little patch that we went to last year and it was like a rush of pumpkin hoarders came in and a herd of horses came in and ate all the hay bales because there was NUTTIN.. Maybe like 20 pumpkins, but not like set up cute or anything… I was like ARE YOU KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW? So the kiddo starts losing control of his eyelids so we weren’t far from home and decided to go ahead and let him give in to the sheep calling his name for naptime. Well, I admitted to myself as it was the night before Halloween and we had a full night ahead of us for Halloween to even try to squeeze in a pumpkin patch visit, I admitted that I would not have a pumpkin patch picture this year. I was ok with it, I really was. BUT, I was OK with it because I had a new photo opp. in my head, I would go grab a big ol pumpkin and get some awesome and messy pictures of B rippin’ out the insides, HE WOULD LOVE THAT MESSY MESS! Pops and B laid down and off to dreamland they went, I hit the pavement and leisurely headed out to Randalls, NO FREAKING PUMPKINS.. then the best part, I left my credit card wallet at home and just had my separate checkbook, so I couldn’t get cash to go to a church pumpkin patch (I later found out that most take checks.. I shook my head even more, fail, fail, fail..) and had to venture on to more stores just hoping that I could find one.. Target, NOPE, and last but not least WALMART, NOPE.. It doesn’t sound like a lot of stops, but for some reason those stores were like the day before Thanksgiving packed! It was so stinking weird.. I didn’t get it at all. I tucked my head, stuck out my lip and headed home to my sleeping beauties..

We will have our little 1.00 pumpkin that he got to go pick out at a pumpkin patch at school be our "pumpkin" this year :). Isn't it huge?

OK, it's really only this big, but I thought long and hard about just having this one picture to cover up my mess up of waiting until the last minute and not thinking twice about it.

His face says it all, thanks mom.. thanks alot.. nice pumpkin ;). Sure wish I had a huge one for us to make a family memory with and carve (haha) (the funny part is that I bought the carving kit weeks before Halloween..)

On Halloween we kept a tradition going and went to my brother and sister in law’s to go lolly gagging around their adorable little neighborhood.. I did get some super cute pictures, but I think that is a given with the super cute photo subjects of mine :).

What do I do with this thing, eat it?