Human Tetris

Saw this on Ellen the other day and thought it was so funny I had to share...

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Halloween

We had such a fun time this Halloween. I feel slightly guilty that I was so excited for a pagan holiday but it was just so fun to teach W about costumes and trick-or-treating and pumpkins and candy...plus it means Thanksgiving and Christmas are just around the corner! We were at Wal-Mart over a month ago and thought we'd check out the costumes. The first aisle we went down, the first costume we saw was Elmo and when W pointed to it beaming shouting, "ELMO!" I knew it was coming home with us. But alas, when we got home he would have nothing to do with putting it on his body. He'd hug it, he'd kiss it, he'd carry it around with him but never, never would he allow us to put it on him. We had a couple brief moments over the course of the month when we'd get it over his head for about two minutes but just as soon as he put it on he'd want us to take it off him. So I had serious doubts about whether he would really be Elmo for Halloween or whether he would be a toddler dressed in red carrying an Elmo costume.
The night of Halloween I thought maybe if he saw us handing out candy at the door to kids wearing costumes he'd get the idea but even that did not have an effect on his stubborn will. Finally in desperation and in my sweetest sing-song voice I said, "W, if you put Elmo on I'll give you some yum-yum's!" (his word for m&m's) I couldn't believe how quickly he dove into that costume! Seriously, that's all it took? Why didn't I try that an hour ago? Anyway, we thought we'd test the waters by taking him across the street to our neighbor's house before driving all over Lincoln to show him off. I armed him with his little pumpkin pail that we had been using to hand out candy to the trick-or-treaters who came to visit us and he journeyed off with Daddy to learn the wonders of getting free candy. They were over there for quite a while so I began wondering what the hold up was. When they came back, hubby told me that when our neighbors held out their candy bowl, W tried putting his candy from his pail into their bowl! It didn't take him long to figure out how trick-or-treating is supposed to work though because by the time we got to the next house he was eagerly grabbing as much as his little hands would hold. We went to four or five more houses that night and I couldn't believe he left that costume on the whole night. What wonders candy can work!

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