better than Black Friday

This was my first day to be free of afternoon care. Though I will probably stay a few minutes late many times in the future (to do lesson prep and such), Dennis and I got out of there at 11:59 today. We were in a terrible hurry to get to Walmart to buy discounted Halloween costumes (the day after Halloween being our favorite shopping day!). We were unsuccessful getting a Green Lantern one, which he really wanted, but we did score a Spiderman costume and a Batman Dark Knight costume for cheap! He giggled with glee as we put the costumes in the shopping cart, giggling the whole time he was touching the packages, and did some serious giggling while trying on the Spiderman mask. He wore the Batman mask and cape in the car. He put on the full costume upon our arrival home, whereupon he flew around the yard until Gran arrived to admire his super-ness. He did NOT want to remove it at naptime, but I insisted. When I got home tonight from my errands, Batman and David were watching guy shows together on the couch (and David happened to find the Looney Tunes episode where the coyote wears his Acme bat suit, which is almost as good as my all time favorite, the one with the earthquake pills).

It's November now, so we hung up our Thankful Tree. Dennis said "today I am thankful for Gran and Pop" so I wrote that on a slip of paper, and he happily found the pocket with the number "1" on it and slipped the paper inside. I am thankful for his Grandma who made our beautiful Thankful Tree!

He played a prank on me this morning. I went to wake him up, and I opened his door to find his light on and him lying face down on the floor, eyes closed, very still. I thought that he'd gotten up to play in the middle of the night and had fallen asleep amongst the scattered Legos, and I just felt awful that I hadn't checked on him in the middle of the night (thank you, Nyquil, for a great night's sleep!) and made him more comfortable! I yelled his name and crouched down as he opened his eyes to giggle at his joke, telling me "I heard you coming and I got down here and pretended I slept here all night." He sure fooled me!