Day 240: Playing Hooky

Brad was in San Francisco all day well into the night. And unfortunately, because we are a one-car family, that left me without transportation to Camden's last tball game of the season. 

To which none of us were that disappointed, because we all needed a night in doing nothing after a busy week. 

So, we played hooky (I mean kind of, it's not like we could actually get there unless we walked like 15 miles) and stayed home and watched Disney movies all night. We started off with Cinderella (to which the boys outwardly suffered through but secretly they were laughing at a lot of it) and then took an intermission to eat dinner and make rice krispie pumpkins. 

These are easy. Because I'm about easy. 

You start by making rice krispie treats the good ol' fashion way with butter and marshmallows and cereal and all that. Add some orange food coloring (or if you're an idiot like me and forgot to check to see if we had orange, add some yellow and red. Welcome back to Kindergarten folks!). 

Once the krispie treats cool down a little, squish them into the closest thing to a ball you can find. It's basically impossible to squish it in your hands without it gluing to your skin like Krazy Glue, so just barely poke and prod it like it's a living rabid animal until it kind of resembles a ball. 

Add some green food gel and a Rollo on top, and you have a pumpkin! Bonus points if you use edible eyeballs, which we did. Because everything Halloween related in our house seems to include eyeballs. 

Also, Cam lost a tooth tonight and looks like an adorable hockey player

After our treat intermission we ate a (one!) pumpkin and dealt with an almost immediate sugar rush on steroids, because they apparently laced those edible eyeballs with methamphetamine or something. Jesus. 

And once they finally calmed down we watched Dumbo and then I tossed the kids into bed so they can dream about pink elephants. 

Seriously, that's one of the weirdest segments in a Disney movie. 

I mean really. What's going on here. 

Tonight really was a good alternative to a tball game.  

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