Bob who?

Soren is going to probably wet his pants when he wakes up this morning and I tell him it is FINALLY Halloween. He has been waiting for months and months for this day to come. About a week ago, I took Dooce's suggestion and made a paper chain to represent all the days left until Halloween. I thought it would help him understand the concept of time and be good "days of the week" lesson. Each morning, we remove a link and then count the number of days left saying Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, etc. Yesterday when we removed the link and were left with just one I said "Soren, lookit, just one left, tomorrow is Halloween!" He ran off screaming into his room, "I'm never going to get to Halloweeeeeeeen, I'm never NEVER going to be Bob!" His patience has obviously ran out and rightly so. Soren decided way back in July to be Bob The Builder, his very favorite cartoon ever, and has been talking about it ever since. He Loves Loves Loves him some Bob. In July I pulled out a pair of winter boots he'd received at Christmas that had an uncanny likeness to what Bob wears. Ever since, he's worn his "Bobs" with his swimsuit, he dress pants, and his pajamas. Don't know who Bob is? Well, here's a quick tutorial just in case other little "Bobs" knock on your door tonight. Bob builds stuff. And he fixes stuff. Basically anything that involves tools in the town of Bobsville is Bob's job. There's some sexual tension between Bob and Wendy, his construction slash business partner. All Bob's heavy equipment talks. Their names are Scoop, Muck, and Dizzy. And, there's a strange character named Spud. He apparently is made of a potato sack and he's the town dunce. Not knowing who Bob the Builder is blasphemy in Soren's book so please don't ask "Who?" when he trick-or-treats you today.