We had a quiet Halloween around the Hart House this year. We took Everly to a trunk-or-treat at the front of our apartment complex on Thursday to dip our toes in the trick-or-treating thing to see if Everly would even be interested. The very first trunk had a couple with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump masks on. It absolutely terrified Everly. I don't think I've ever seen Everly so scared. Her eyes got so big as she turned around desperately running for Chad to pick her up. Needless to say, the trunk-or-treating was over as soon as it started.
We tried our best to get Everly's spirits back up and visit only the normal dressed trunkers, but no such luck. She refused to let Chad put her down and kept her head buried in his shoulder almost the entire time. To make matters worse a little boy tried stealing her pumpkin bucket right out of her hand. The tears were never-ending. To get back to our car we had to walk past a man dressed as batman, and apparently he was the most traumatizing. She hasn't stopped talking about how much she doesn't like Batman since. She even woke up in the middle of the night a couple nights ago to get up and shut our bedroom door. When Chad asked her what she was doing she explained that she didn't want Batman to get her. It was a disaster.
So when Monday came we put her costume on for her party at daycare and called it a Halloween. No trick-or-treating for us this year. And we were perfectly happy with it. We went to dinner with Mimi, Pappaw, and Uncle Brock and that was the extent of our Halloween celebration.
I did manage to get some pictures before we started the trunk-or-treat. And I have to say, she was the cutest Little Red Riding Hood I have ever seen.
When we got many many yards away from the trunk-or-treating we ran into one of Everly's favorite friends of the family and neighbor, and she perked right up. It was then she realized the awesome goodies she was carrying around in her bucket and finally began to enjoy the fruits of her Mommy and Daddy's labor.
And just to make myself cry, I put this timeline together. I can't believe this was Everly's third Halloween. I hadn't realized how much she has grown until I saw this comparison. She truly doesn't look like a baby anymore.
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