Ever since we started having all of these recalls on toys made in China my kids have been telling each other constantly not to chew on things.  I hear "Don't chew on that - it's made in China" at least 6 times a day.  Well, just now Noah was finishing up dinner (pancakes) and he's sitting there quietly eating (which is unusual) and he says "Mo-ooooom...Are animals made in China?"  so I said "like REAL animals?  Like Stitch?"  And he says "yeah."  and I say "no, animals are made all over"  And he says "Well they should be cuz we can't chew on them."  It was probably funnier in person.  I just think he says the funniest things.

Today we were on a quest for stuff to make Ben and Noah their costumes for Halloween.  They want to be Ash from Pokemon.  You'd think it'd be easy to find a red and white baseball hat, a blue vest and green gloves.  Well, it's not.  So we ended up with a off white hat with a red bill (thank you to the very nice man at All Star Printing...he actually GAVE them to us for free) black gloves and a navy blue vest and a blue puffy vest.  I think we can make it work.  I got a red fabric marker to fix the hats and green fabric paint to put the symbol on it.  I think we went to about 7 stores today.  And then Ben tells me he wants to be Pikachu.  HA.  He seems to think I can MAKE him a Pikachu costume.  Not gonna happen.  They are both going to be ASH Ketchum. 

Nicole is at Sydney's for the weekend.  Hopefully she's really invited because I never talked to Sydney's mom.  I'm pretty sure she trusts me and I do trust her so I'm not worried.  It'd be different if this was a first time thing.

I sure wish it were bedtime already.  I'm so sleepy.