Catching Up – Halloween!

The Christmas season is already upon us, meaning that there will be lots of fun things to post about.  However, the OCD part of me will not allow me to write about any of that until I catch up on what has already happened around here!  So before Christmas, before Thanksgiving, there was Halloween!  Now, Halloween is not a big deal to me any more (it mostly just means handing out candy, and Robert actually did that this year) – but, over at the Lackey household, it was quite the event(s).  Lucky for me, Mandy is a great photographer who not only likes to take pictures, but doesn’t mind if her old mother steals them for her personal use.  Since I wasn’t there, I will try to relate the events to the best of my memory of the story:

A couple of days before Halloween, there was something called “Boo at the Zoo” and Mandy went with a very good friend of hers and all of their crumb crunchers.    There was “trick-or-treating”:

And Paisley played all kinds of fun games:

And Fox – Well, he mostly just sat around looking cute:

Even though it was tons of fun, I think they were there for quite some time, and Paisley reached a point that she was just done:

That was too bad, because there was a party at the church later that night, and the whole family went:

Mandy had been asked to be one of the official photographers, tasked to take family-type shots of all of the attendees.  She used Jeromy and Paisley as subjects for some test shots, and our little bunny was so tired, even her ears were drooping:

On Halloween night, the little family went “trick-or-treating” with some other family friends, hoping that Paisley would have more fun and more confidence about going up to strangers’ doors if she was with a group.   At some homes, she still needed a  little help from Dad…

But other homes seemed safe enough that she could do it herself:

I was quite tickled that Paisley wanted to be a bunny this year…just like her mother did when she was a little girl.  Here’s a side-by-side of my two sweet bunnies:

Even Halloween has come full circle!

Trick or TREAT!

For the past several years we have spent Halloween at home, passing out candy to all of the little crumb crunchers.  Sorry to say, this year the little crumb crunchers found that our light was out and there was no one home.  We were with the Lackey family, spending time with the World’s Most Beautiful Trick-or-Treater and her parents.

So what was the World’s Most Beautiful Child dressed up as?  “Super Paisley!”  Most Beautiful’s mother created the character and has some talented lady she found on Etsy execute her design.  Here is that pint-sized super hero:

 As part of her costume, Paisley got her first pair of chucks, which delighted her mother to no end.  This has been Mandy’s footwear of choice for a long, long time.  In fact, when Mandy became engaged to her cowboy, they set up a little website that, if memory serves, was titled something like “Chucks and Boots”.

Jeromy got into the spirit of things by dressing in a costume that also made a statement.  Mandy wasn’t planning on dressing up, but since Most Beautiful did not want to keep her cape (nor her armbands) on, Mandy hoped that if she had a cape too, it might help (it did):

We all attended an event at the church which Most Beautiful’s family attends – it was called “Trunk or Treat”.  A certain area of the parking lot was sectioned off and the trunks of people’s cars became the “homes” to which crumb crunchers went to beg for candy:

There were kids running and squealing everywhere, and it seemed like they were having a good time.  Mandy and I took our girl from car to car and she scored some treats, too, although she couldn’t dive in and eat anything until her parents sorted through it to remove any peanut-laced items.  We did not want to have an Epi-pen event!

This leads me to my one sore point:  Grump-Pa:

Has Grump-Pa (or “Pa Pa”, as Paisley says) ever changed a diaper?  NO!  Has Grump-Pa ever spent the whole day reading stories, singing songs, playing with toys, and making lunch and snack?  NO!  Does Grump-Pa even know how to run the nebulizer and administer breathing treatments, etc.?  NO!   Despite all of that, Grump-Pa is the only thing that Most Beautiful can even see when we are all together.  She was all over Grump-Pa at the party…getting water from the water fountain, riding on his shoulders, and chasing and popping bubbles at the car that had a bubble blower going.  And when she couldn’t have her candy right away, Grump-Pa  took her over to the table with hot chocolate and looted the mini-marshmallows.  Oh the smiles and giggles and adoring looks as Paisley and old-what’s-his-name ate a whole cup of marshmallows together!  It’s enough to make an Old Lolee gag, I tell you!

So that was our Halloween…a little treat named “Super Paisley”!