November 1, 2011

Max and Alex: Halloween wrestlers
Max and Alex dressed as Mexican wrestlers for their first "real" trick or treating Halloween. Up until this year the boys knocked on one house before retreating to our house to hand out treats to the loads of kids in that 'hood.

This year the boys asked "Can we go to more than one house?"

With our insistence on healthy food and restriction on sugar, we weren't sure how it would work but we said yes. We started at the Z's house. Papa went to the door first to "make sure someone was home." He slipped them some healthy treats which were then passed to the boys when they finally got brave enough to come to the door. We then moved to a very kid friendly street and continued the routine. It all couldn't have been better.

"Raisins!" Max exclaimed as he found two small boxes of raisins amongst all the candy bars in a bowl at one house. "Alex! We got the last two boxes of raisins!" he announced loudly coming away from the house. Later it was "Papa, they had Larabars." Or "Mama, you won't believe it but they had healthy chocolate."

Some parents may have thought we were strange. Others congratulated us on being caring parents.

No matter. Our kids were happy and we had fun.

Maxism of the week: I took a new route to school this week going mainly on Woodmont. Alex asked if it was called Woodmont because there was wood on the street. I said that maybe way back when that was true. Or maybe it was because it had lots of woody trees along the street or maybe....The three of us came up with many options. Finally I said maybe it was because the guy who made the street had a boy named Woody and a boy named Monte and named the street after them.

Max thought about it for awhile and then said "It wouldn't have been the guy who made the street it would have been the guy who made the sign."

Proved to me that boy knows who makes the final decision!