Our Spiderman and Miss Vampire

We are continuing to enjoy the Fall here in Orange County. I love to be able to open my windows and have the breeze come through and then to have the house naturaly cooled off at night by the outside air without having to turn on the air conditioner. Here's to the cheaper electric bills the fall brings... yeah!
We have carved pumpkins in the previous weeks, toasted pumpkin seeds, and made homemade cinnnamon rolls. I originally bought two smaller pumpkins for decoration and let the kids 'claim' one each so they felt like they had their own. Well of course Brent's pumpkin quickly made it's way off my decor table and accross the floor very quickly. He simply said, 'mommie... it's bowling..." How silly of me to think otherwise. So my poor pumpkins were quite bruised and abused, but well loved from the kids. So we carved them a little early to extend their life a tad bit longer.
The kids have gotten to wear their Halloween costumes twice already; once to a birthday party where they went trick or treating and again on Friday night to our ward's Trunk or Treat. Brent is spiderman and Taylor is a vampire. (the very cute and not scary kind:)
Eric asked Brent the other Saturday as he was watching one of his college football games, " Brent are you going to be a football player when you grow up" ...starting the brainwashing a little early... And Brent responded, "NO Daddy, ... I Spiderman..." Well after some more brainwashing from Eric I think he changed his mind about Halloween. Because someone asked him this week what are you going to be for Halloween, and he said... 'Football player.' I quickly said... "Uh... Brent, no you're spiderman..." He quickly opposed and said,... no football player. I started having flash backs to the last two Halloweens with Taylor, where we had her costume purchased and planned and the morning of Halloween comes and she insists on being something else. This is when I would lose it and become really angry. Thank goodness Brent still went along with his spiderman costume. But the Football brainwashing has stopped for now at least, until Halloween is over and I feel like he's gotten his wear out of his Spiderman Costume.