This is Halloween(‘s after effect).
Hank woke up on November 1st enthusiastically wishing his father a “Happy How-ween!” An hour or so later, he admonished me: “Mama: Wear a costume.” Luckily, he made no mention of his candy bucket. I bagged up the remainder of his stash–which was basically his whole stash minus four or so pieces he had eaten over the course of trick or treating and two almond joys I had snaked (I am not that into chocolate, but I tolerate almond joys. except when I eat them I’m usually thinking, “this would be a lot better if it was just coconut and almonds, held together by something other than chocolate”)–and gave it to my students. Since most of their Halloweens now revolve around alcohol, I think they appreciated the sugar. And to be able to take candy from a baby, though some of them were saddened that I didn’t let my poor child keep his hard earned snickers. I reminded them that he’s not even 2 years old, and that seemed to satisfy them. They are funny, college freshmen. One foot in adulthood and one foot still firmly in childhood. Most of them are doing the splits, but that one foot is still there.
It’s almost a week later but Hank’s still coming down from the excitement of it all. We went for a walk this evening and every house that had still had decorations up or pumpkins on display was approached with an eager “Trick or treat? Get candy?”
And then he picked up a clump of dirt from our neighbors yard, said “MMMMMM CHOCOLATE” and ate it. Didn’t even spit it out. Didn’t seem to notice it wasn’t, in fact, chocolate.
Toddlers are gross.
Toddlers ARE gross. Today, Iris ate countless boogers and two crayons, and then she licked the “outside ball.”
P.S. We have two dogs.
Agreed, toddlers are gross. Jackson’s favorite is to try and eat his shoes. After wearing them. I’m not much of a germ freak, and the dirt and whatever he eats is generally not going to wig me out, but the shoes grosses me out. Ugh.
I also agree with the chocolate thing. Give me a sugar candy over chocolate any day of the week.
Amen to the toddlers are gross. Mine likes to lick the dog’s nose. Ew. I guess because the dogs like to lick his nose…also ew. *sigh* I’d be less grossed out by this if our dogs didn’t eat their own poo.