Candy Survey Update

Here is a link to see Andrew's Candy Survey Data.

This data might be useful when determining what candy to get for someone as a surprise for their upcoming birthday or Christmas.

Interesting facts to note:

• Kit-Kat scored highest
• Jaw Breakers scored lowest
• Suckers ranked 40th on the rating, but we got over twice as much as the most abundant candy bar. This means we live in a cheap neighborhood that doesn't care what kids like. But still, we got 31 Snickers.
• The top 13 ranked candies were all in the chocolate category
• Tootsie-Rolls are not considered chocolate.

Halloween

Saturday morning after all the trick-or-treating was done, Andrew dumped all of his and Mylie’s candy out on the living room floor and sorted them. Ever since he has learned to write, he has a fun time making lists. So he made a list in his journal of each kind of candy and how much he collected of each kind. He then proceeded to take a survey of each family member on how they would rate each candy on a scale of 1-10 (10 being their favorite). His analog spreadsheet became cumbersome and I introduced him to the data collection joy of an excel spread sheet. We quickly entered his data and he proceeded to survey Grandpa, Nana and Cousin Sean. The data is below.

Andrew finds the joy in actually talking to the people and collecting the data. I think it is interesting to see what candy people like and hate. Feel free to copy and past the list below into an email to me, take the survey yourself and I’ll repost the results in a couple days.

Also below are some pictures of Andrew and Mylie in their Halloween costumes. (Andrew won an award for the scariest costume and Mylie is The Purple Power Ranger (her own design)).

Candy Name (Amount Collected)

Jolly Rancher (5)

Smarties (36)

Crunch (4)

3 Musketteers (4)

Tootsie Roll (44)

Reeses (14)

Dollar Gummies (2)

Hard Candy Mint (7)

Laffy Taffy (37)

Starburst (36)

Milky Way (19)

Twix (5)

Nerds (11)

Jaw Breaker (11)

Werthers Originals (3)

Licorice (1)

Hard Fruit Candy (9)

Nestle Chocolate Bar (1)

Chocolate Money (2)

Pumpkin Marshmallow (2)

Sour Patch Kids (1)

Hot Tamales (1)

Almond Joy (4)

Gummy Body Parts (3)

Swedish Fish (8)

Carmel (4)

A&W Hard Candy (4)

Milk Duds (5)

Mr. Goodbar (3)

Charleston Chew (Vanilla) (2)

Gummy Candy (7)

Baby Ruth (5)

Hershey Chocolate Bar (19)

Snickers (31)

Kit-Kat (11)

Butterfinger (10)

Whoppers (12)

Gum (10)

Sweet-Tarts (9)

Now-n-Later (12)

Skittles (11)

M&M (15)

Sucker (Dumb-Dumb) (78)

Runts (2)

Teddy Grahms (1)

Pixy Stix (2)

Gum Balls (30)

Peanut M&Ms (5)

558 Total

Washington DC

Mat and I got some free airline tickets from Breanne and Ben. We were not able to make it work out for the two of us to go somewhere together. We did not want to waste the tickets so we decied it would be fun to take Andrew somewhere that is anywhere. If anything just so Andrew could ride in an airplane.

We decied it would be fun if I(Andi) would take him to Washington DC. We thought it would be fun to make it a surprise. We did not tell him until we were at the airport that morning. He thought we were going to go pick someone up!!! He was kind of dumb-founded when we gave him his bags and told we were going on an airplane to DC. It was really fun to surprise him. It wasn't until we were inside the airport for about 10 min that he started to jyrate because he was so excited. We were able to stay with Mat's cousins who live in DC. It was so fun to stay with them. They did so much to make our visit so fun!! Thanks guys!! While we were there we were able to see the Lincoln Memorial, The Capital, Surpreme Court, Air and Space Museum, Natural History Museum, Washington Monument, and the White House. Andrew loved every bit of it. It was so neat to see him get so intrested in all the history and sites. It was fun for me also to spend time with just Andrew. It was a trip we both we never forget.