The Puddles

It was a great Halloween this year!  We invited a couple of Madie’s friends to join us this year.  Patricia and Madie have been wanting to be Girl Scout vampires for a couple of years, but they kept forgetting.  Finally her mom and I talked about a month prior and planned for the girls to be vampires.  Of course, Ainsley wanted to be vampire Dorothy.

The girls are Disney versions of vampires.  I had to beg Ainsley to put blood around her mouth.  Ben decided to be a ninja. It was not my idea to buy him swords, but Daddy said you can’t be a ninja without swords and bought them for Ben.  So now Ben has swords. Crazy.  But he is good with them, and so far hasn’t struck anyone.

After the fifth house, Ainsley was done and wanted to go home. She had enough candy she said.  After less than an hour of trick or treating the youngest two went home and helped Daddy pass out candy.  Then I took the older girls for another half and hour just by themselves.  They all had a good time.  By the time, we got home and settled I was tired.  At 8:30 we turned out the lights and locked the door.  We still had kids come up to 10:30 that night.  Where are their parents?  These weren’t high schoolers.  They were about middle school age.  I finally admonished the last set about trick or treating at houses whose lights are out.  Geez.

But in the end it was good.  We all had a great time including Daddy who didn’t have to walk and got to stay home and pass out candy!