The Waking Badger

This year, I think Ben got Halloween. He enjoyed the trick or treating, the candy, and the other kid’s costumes. I was glad to see he wasn’t scared, but more just curious this time around. This was also the first time Ben came to know the candy known as Sweet Tarts.

Ben saw the cupcakes before he left daycare and he asked us about them continually for the next 1.5 - 2 hours before we went back for the Fall Festival. When he finally got his cake he didn’t waste anytime and seemed to thoroughly enjoy it

I totally thought this video should have been redubbed to “Oh Yeah” by Yello. Don’t pretend like you don’t know the song; just think Matthew Broderick in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off!

Rock!

Unfortunately, once I mixed it in, the video seemed somewhat taudry. It was just wrong for the setting so I dropped it, but still the song totally fits the cupcake eating and Ben’s complete obsession with getting “my cake”

Heather posted a good write up on our Sunday morning at the NC State Fair. I have to say the crowds got to me and I’m quite sure that Ben’s slight bratty behavior didn’t help, but all in all it was a good time. She already posted the video below, but I liked it so much I decided to include it here as well. Unfortunately, I had to carry that Dora around much of the fairgrounds as Ben ate or played. Oh well

We started out the day by going to a pumpkin farm. This was a lot of fun, especially for Ben. He had a friend there named Katie and they got to walk through two corn mazes, go on a hayride, play on a slide, feed some goats, play on a hay pile, and pick out their very own pumpkin. The whole deal lasted almost 3 hours and I got some fun footage out of it (some of which can be found below).

The video above is from later Saturday night where Ben and I were trying to carve the pumpkin. I absolutely love Halloween and I hope Ben will also grow to love it with me. After all, it’s harder for an adult to go trick or treating when he has no children.

So, Heather and I went to Taget on Sunday night to get some stuff for Ben. What she didn’t know ahead of time was that I brought my Flip Mino to capture footage of “Domo“, Target’s 2008 Halloween mascot. I got some strange looks and some bewildered comments from Heather, but as much as she doesn’t understand a lot of the things I do, she has learned to tolerate them and live with it

Here are some links capturing the news about Domo:

• Target’s Halloween site
• Anime News Network
• Tomopop
• The Anime Blog
• Target’s Domo Shopping List

UPDATE: YouTube video replaced with higher quality Vimeo video…