At the Halloween Spooktacular (sponsored by the school) the boys all wanted to play the ring toss game to win two liters of soda. Cause you know we’re a huge soda-drinking family and could use a few extra two liters around the house. The idea was to throw the rings at a wall of soda bottles and if you landed one around the neck of the bottle, you won it.
Not only did these guys each win one, but Calvin went 3 for 3 and was hauling a two-liter under each arm all night (the third one went to the girl who gave him two tickets to play the game for her. She probably took the bottle home and slept with it tucked under her arm — soda is the new stuffed animal, right?). The best part was when we sat down to eat and each boy opened his bottle without checking to see if any of the others had opened theirs first. That’s exactly what I wanted with dinner: 3 huge open containers of soda — on top of all the other candy and sugar.
Anyway, the soda has been consumed, the candy has been tossed and I’m hoping we can recover some sense of normal around here before the grandparents come with new ways and means of spoiling them all over again. It’s just a non-stop party!