Overlooking the real joy of October...

October rolls around and everyone gets weak in the knees for all the fall colors and the crisp air and pumpkin patches and picking apples and eating all things pumpkin and drinking hot apple cider and making soup and jumping in leaves etc etc.

But the best part of October is often overlooked...the availability of this:



Most stores only carry Count Chocula seasonally and we loaded up this weekend. Although, I must say that it is not quite as chocolatey as it used to be.


Elsa is caught dumping out the box of Franken Berry and sneaking into the Count Chocula.

From Wikipedia: Franken Berry was very popular when first introduced possibly because the initial batches of the cereal used a dye that didn't break down in the body, causing many children's feces to be bright pink, a symptom sometimes referred to as "Frankenberry Stool."