Happy Halloween! What better way to celebrate than with four evil babies glaring at you???
Forget costumes. Caroline, Benjamin, Sydney and Smith are scarier au naturale than Michael Meyers with a mask. In fact, I'd sooner sleep in a graveyard than spend a night in a nursery next to one of these kids.
If you are joining the Glare-Off for the first time, I'd suggest you start with ROUND #1. For everybody else, we are down to semi-finals.
Yesterday was a close race for all parties involved, particularly Sydney and Emma. Ultimately, Sydney prevailed with 53% of the vote, mainly because people fear what they cannot see.
Wouldn't it be funny if Sydney was sporting a clown nose and some serious duck lips underneath that blanket?
Nah. I bet she's hiding her voodoo dolls and pin cushion under there.
Today, in honor of Sydney's swaddle, I'll be giving away baby blankets from Candy Kirby Designs. Right after we vote for which evil babies should make it into tomorrow's finals.
Ready?
Polls close at 10pm EST.
May the evilest baby win!
Before I get to the giveaway, I just want to give a shout-out to this week's episode of "The Mommy Show". Jim Gaffigan comes over, tries to put together a Pack and Play, glues a peacock to my dining room table, and names our imaginary baby Oscar. It might be my favorite episode yet.
Moving on…
GIVEAWAY
Today's giveaway is a $75 gift card to Candy Kirby Designs, maker of awesome patterned leggings, beanies, pillows, crib sheets and baby blankets.
Candy Kirby (@candykirbydesigns on instagram) is solely responsible for making me feel like I could be decking out Harlow's crib in something a whole lot cooler. Like her signature Charcoal Plus blanket.
You know, the kind of blanket your baby could stash a kitchen knife and you would never know until it was used against you in the middle of the night.
Ask Sydney. She knows what I'm talking about.
GIVEAWAY RULES
1) You must be a Mommy Shorts Facebook Fan to enter. Then, answer this question in the comment section below: What Halloween candy makes you want to smash a pumpkin?
All giveaway winners will be announced on Monday November 4th, along with the winner of the glare-off.
GOOD LUCK!
Tootsie Pops – blue, red, orange; doesn’t matter what color, those things are nah-stay!
The orange and black unmarked candies! No name on the wrapper so we can’t call them out on how nasty they are.
Wow how’d you find out it was just the orange?
without a doubt, Neccos
Bit o’ Honey…want to rip your fillings and teeth out, this is the candy for you1
oops… “!” not “1”
Any kind of bubble or chewing gum! Kids used to spit them out around the bus stop and it grossed me out so much that I still can’t stomach the stuff.
Sour warheads – my 3 year old just tried one and you should have seen his appalled face. I’ve never been fond of candy corn either.
Found them. Necco Mary Jane peanut butter kisses Necco apparently makes all the nasty candy.
I HATE Tootsie Rolls. But I agree, if I got that letter in my kids bag I would find out which house it came from. She would have a nice surprise in her mailbox!
Any of that cheap-ass “chocolate” made by Palmer. Nasty flavor with truly frightful ingredients!
Popcorn balls – the worst – 1st strike – home made which is forbidden, 2nd strike – sticks to the cling wrap, 3rd strike – wet, sticky popcorn tastes awful!
Those nasty circus peanuts and those generic orange and plack wrapped candies that are supposed to taste like peanut butter! Gross!
Candy Corn! It is so disgusting and smells horrible to me! And of course everyone LOVES it so its everywhere! My pregnant nose can’t take it!
Mike & Ike or Candy Corn! Both are horrible!!
I actually have no real opinion of candy corn either way, but Tootsie Rolls? Ew.
The chews that are wrapped in orange and black paper. Seriously? Old people candy is nasty.
Tootsie rolls for sure! Those things are just awful.
Those orange and black candies that taste like nasty peanut butter
Tootsie rolls!
Orange and black Chew candies. Gross!
I have to say Bit-O-Honeys, Smarties, and those purple and white skull lollipops. They are all disgusting, and besides, anything that is not chocolate is automatically below par.
The candy that makes me want to throw a pumpkin into the street are DOTS. They are so hard and no matter how long you keep it in your mouth they don’t get softer. You can literally break a tooth with them! I suspect a dentist invented them!
Smarties are stupid!
dum dum suckers. They totally cut into the amount of “candy tax” I am able to take from my kids because I totally don’t want any dum dum suckers.
My mother used to give out apples and boxes of raisins, not chocolate coated, just raisins. ANY candy is better than that! (I hope this counts!)
I once got DENTAL FLOSS while trick or treating.
Worst. Candy. Ever.
Didn’t even come with a side of taffy. Come on.
Oh crap! I bought a whole bunch of those for the kids in the neighborhood! I thought they’d be good! oops!! 🙁 Is my house going to be TP’d now?!?
Agreed!
Sugar-free gummy bears. Have you read the reviews? http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000EVQWKC/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk
Mike and Ike candies. Eww!!!
Black licorice…blech
Licorice (*shudder*)
chiclets gum ew ew ew ew
and flavoured tootsie rolls
Malted milk balls! I guess those are Whoppers, huh?
Whoppers! They taste like sand.
Good N Plenty. Licorice flavor is so gross.
I really really dislike candy corn… But what I hate even worse are the gross pumpkins made of the same stuff as candy corn! ugh… I need to go smash a pumpkin just thinking about them!!
I love all candy, even the ones in the black and orange wrappers. But if there were a candy in the shape of a hammer, perhaps in a wrapper that said “must use to smash a pumpkin before consumption for most delightful culinary experience,” I would give it a go.
Clementines. Don’t get me wrong, I love some good citrus but that always gets me riled up.
I’m allergic to all orange dye. I actually found out when I was taking orange-coated medicine to reduce the swelling in my tonsils before having them removed. Vomiting does NOT reduce tonsil swelling.
If you’d started at age 5 with Lik-A-Maids (circa 1956 ish) you wOuld know how to handle a Pixie Stix!