Taste Test

I was sitting on the couch relaxing, while watching "1000 Ways To Die". My son was wandering around with his new pumpkin flashlight, watching all the colors change. He came over and started to play with me like he had been doing all night. The thing is, he kept shining the light in my eyes and I had had enough of that. When I turned around to see him shoving the light into his eye socket I told him that was it for flashlight time.

I took the two pieces apart to reveal the 9volt battery inside making it light up. I thought about what I would always do as a child and placed it on my tongue to reminisce. My son watched me and wanted to try this, so I dabbed it on his tongue really quick. I told him to stick out his tongue and then I did it. He liked it too much though haha! I took it away and put everything out of reach.

Minutes later my son walks up to me (without a diaper on, which I was aware of) and he sticks out his finger while demonstrating to me that he wanted me to stick out my tongue and taste his finger. I don't know if I should thank the pregnancy for the super keen sense of smell, or if it was something anyone would have smelled. However, when the stench of pure butthole wafted up through my nose I quickly backed away, said, "THAT'S BEEN IN YOUR BUTT!", led him to a bath, and promptly decided never to play the "taste" game with him again.


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Waiting for the Doctor

Of all the places we have had to wait around with our son, I'll have to vote on the doctor's office being one of the best because they have "toys" in the room. We usually blow up a glove for him and that lasts for up to half an hour of playtime. Yesterday, we were able to get a little more time out of it by stuffing that balloon into his clothes. He loved it.

The best part of the whole trip was that he didn't have to get any shots. Yay for that! I only wish it didn't cost $11 to park there.






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The Calabasas Pumpkin Festival

On October the 18th we visited the Calabasas Pumpkin Festival for the second year in a row. I have to admit this year was more fun with our son being 2, but overall, even though it is free I think it is just too far away for us living in Los Angeles. There is another one that sounds to be the same which is just over the hill in Sherman Oaks. Next year we will try that one and see if it compares.

Still, we had fun. It's free to get in, and free to park. But they make up for it with everything else inside ha ha! They have inflatables like rock climbing, jumpers, obstacle courses etc. They have a train ride, large slide, box car racing, paint your own pumpkin, paint a tile (courtesy of Home Depot), and face painting. Each of those rides or activities is $3 each. Well, the rides had lines that were just too long for that price. The crafts we thought were good for our son though. He painted a 50 cent tile, then went over and painted a small $1 pumpkin. My estimations of course, each activity was $3 a piece. When you get into the habit of making so many of your own crafts and fun, as well as bargain shopping, it just becomes hard to spend so much on something like that. Knowing very well we could have gone home and done the exact same things for about $2 total. But, I know how exciting it is for a child to participate in activities when you attend an event, so we indulged him.

My son and I shared a fresh lemonade while my husband got a smoothie. We played at the park a little, touched some reptiles, and let our son play the free toddler carnival games set up at the booths for businesses. He got a nice collection of tattoos, stickers, candy, and small toys. From the booths I collected a free t-shirt from a great new mom website momslikeme.com, as well as a free re-usable bag from them. I got another reusable bag from another company, and entered quite a few contests.

The festival also hosts live entertainment and towards the end of the day they had a Journey tribute band. I was game, so we sat there for a while listening. They were pretty good. Our son enjoyed them a lot. He danced and wandered through the people in front of the stage. We got him on video.

As far as it was to go, we had a good time, and seeing him smile makes it all worth it. Really we made out well too we spent only $18 total while there. Not too bad.

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