Something about this day. I wake up feeling anxious and it lasts all day.
I feel nervous that I won't get out of work on time or will hit lots of traffic on my way home resulting in us missing trick 'o treating. The past few years we have gone to the Busta's and spent the evening with them. It's much more fun for the girls since their neighborhood is full of kids and the neighbors participate. In past years it has proven to be a ghost town around here. Every year I get anxious and every year everything turns out just fine. I make it home, we make it to their house, we eat dinner, we get ready, and we go out. We haven't missed a Halloween yet! (maybe next year I should read this....)
Brennan, Chloe, Aubrey, Hannah, Maddie and Hailey
The girls were excited to get going!
We decided to walk this year so Hailey took the opportunity to ask daddy for the stroller.
It was a good thing we did:
1. It was nice to have the extra room for carrying hats, gloves, drinks
2. It was nice to push her when she decided she was tired instead of having to carry her
3. We made our way down the first block. At the end the girls realized that they had missed Brent's house (Stacey's neighbor in a 'new' development but some day there will be houses between them). The big kids decided to run there and Hailey decided to sit in the stroller and wait for them to come back. Good thing.....a few minutes later we heard screams. Hannah and Chloe came running from the house, Maddie came away crying and Aubrey wasn't following. When Maddie got close enough we asked what happened and she told us how Brent scared them. He was waiting in front of the house (see picture) and would jump out to scare the kids as they got closer. Aubrey was so scared that when Mandy opened the door to give them candy she ran inside and wouldn't come out. I get that it's Halloween and kids should be ok getting scared but they are only 5-6 years old. Poor little things...scared to even approach houses if there was any chance something would scare them.
They made it around our usual path and by the end of the night had a full bg of candy.
Hailey quit half way through and was pretty content just riding along watching the kids in their costumes.
Happy Halloween!
2 comments:
Agreed! Sometimes, people need to consider their audience a little more - that is quite the scary costume. There was one house here that built a haunted house in their driveway that you had to pass through to get candy. Mike said he would take Violet through it. I vetoed that idea - I am not going to stay up all night with nightmares.
That guy is SCARY!!
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