Fall Break- Slumber Party!

We used to have slumber parties the last day of school leading into Fall Break or Spring Break. We had one last Fall Break but last Spring Break was a little unusual as it was a break from online school. I don't think we had a slumber party. We decided to have one this Fall Break.

I was so tired I fell asleep on the couch while Jeremy and the kids started a movie.

I woke in time for popcorn and the end of the movie. Thanks, Jeremy, for making popcorn.

Jet was wearing his "bugs" shirt since it was Chocolate Covered Insect Day. The bugs on the shirt are brown so they look like they could be covered in chocolate. 

The three boys (not baby) slept in sleeping bags in the living room. The rest of us slept in our rooms.

Oh Yes, We Did

October 14 was Chocolate Covered Insect Day. Jeremy had been looking and we finally found some in the gift shop at the Butterfly Biosphere at Thanksgiving Point. Last time we celebrated in 2014 we got them at Farm Country and there were only 4 in the package (they weren't at Farm Country this time). This time there were 6 in the package. 1 for each of us. Nobody had to share a bug.

Nichole and Jr. Jr. had white chocolate meal worms. Jr. had a regular chocolate meal worm. Dad and Mom had regular chocolate crickets and Lucky had a white chocolate cricket. That's the one he really wanted.

We just had to celebrate this year. Lucky has been talking about it and talking about it. He really wanted to eat a chocolate covered insect since he didn't get to last time. He wasn't yet a year old at the time so I wouldn't let him have any.
Here are some of the comments heard this time-
Jr. and Jr. Jr.: It's like a chocolate covered pretzel.
Nichole: This makes me really want chocolate covered things.
Jr. Jr.: Ooh, you can see little legs.
Mom: It still tastes like a chocolate covered cracker.
Lucky: It was yummy... and crunchy. It was kind of weird but it tasted like chocolate.

I'm still confused how my pickiest eaters will balk at the meals I prepare them yet have no thought to eating a chocolate covered bug.

 I just love that last picture of me. What do you think? Facebook profile picture?
 
Earlier in the day, I was talking to my mom and told her, "Jeremy and I are going to head out to see if we can find some chocolate covered insects to celebrate the holiday today." Since October 14 was also Columbus Day, she was confused as to why we ate insects on Columbus Day. Jeremy explained it this way, "If Columbus' ship was going really fast and he was standing at the front of it with his mouth open..."
Have I mentioned I love my husband? And his humor?

I don't have any pictures but I can tell you about October 15. That is P.G. Wodehouse's birthday. We also found out it is National Grouch Day.
To celebrate, we watched The Great Muppet Caper. How does that celebrate those days, you ask? Well, at one point in the movie Miss Piggy and Kermit are hiding in a closet of some wealthy person's home since Miss Piggy is pretending to be a wealthy person herself. The door is opened and after a short conversation with a character played by John Cleese, Miss Piggy says, "Thank you, Jeeves," and she and Kermit leave. Now P.G. Wodehouse wrote the "Jeeves" books so you can see that we were excited that came up in the movie.
As for National Grouch Day, Oscar the Grouch has a cameo in this movie alongside Peter Ustinov. That was what made us decide to watch that movie. The Jeeves line was just an added bonus.

Emerald Insects

A couple months ago, we were visiting Farm Country at Thanksgiving Point.  Jeremy was in the gift shop looking at things when he saw that they had seasoned bugs and chocolate covered insects.  When we got home we looked on the calendar and saw that National Chocolate Covered Insect Day was October 14.  I was hesitant at first (even though the kids sounded enthusiastic), but Jeremy convinced me that we should eat real chocolate covered insects for the holiday, not like the fake insects we ate a couple years ago.
So today was the day.  This afternoon we headed to Farm Country.  When we bought our chocolate covered insects, we were able to inform the cashier of the holiday.  He thought it was great and decided to get himself a box of them to eat in front of his wife later, maybe gross her out.  It's always nice when you're able to help others find reasons to celebrate.
Since there were only 4 bugs in the package, Jr. and Jeremy split a regular chocolate covered meal worm, Nichole ate a white chocolate covered meal worm, Jr. Jr. ate a white chocolate covered cricket, and I ate a regular chocolate covered cricket (that's the one I really wanted).

And yes, we actually all ate them.  If you don't think about it, then it just tastes like a chocolate covered cracker.  I chose to think about it, though.  Which meant that after swallowing, I could still feel the little gritty leftover bug bits that were still there and stayed there for a while.  It's not really gross.  I would do it again to celebrate the holiday.

That wasn't the only way we were able to celebrate at Farm Country, though.  Since this year is the 75th Anniversary of The Wizard of Oz, Farm Country is doing a Wizard of Oz theme during the month of October (and Cornbelly's across the street has a Wizard of Oz themed corn maze this year).  They had decorations up around the whole place. 

The kids got to dress up in costumes for pictures. 

We followed the yellow brick road to the emerald city where the kids got to ride the horses, some of them with bright colors in their manes.  "Now that's a horse of a different color." 

We also went on a carriage ride, just our family

and played a little in Munchkinland.

It was nice.

We were also at Farm Country in time for milking the cow so Nichole and Jr. each took a turn again.  We didn't get the greatest pictures of that, but you've seen it before.
We had fun celebrating today. 
I wonder if anyone else I know ate any chocolate covered insects.