The Day After...

What a day yesterday turned out to be. Chris went to work and ended up back at the house an hour later. He was simply bending over to pick up a piece of wood and his back went out. Not as bad as last time but he came home and got some medicine in and relaxed instead of making it worse and pushing on.

After Madi's nap, we tried getting her ready to go trick or treating. Lately she is very particular with what she wants and doesn't want to wear. So, I wasn't surprised when she threw a royal fit and didn't want to wear her cowgirl shirt (very cute button up plaid shirt), she didn't want to wear her cowboy boots. We went to get her picture taken at Forever Images, they were collecting food and money and you get a free 4x6 picture, but she was scared of the decorations and didn't get her picture taken. She was finally happy once we started trick or treating. We didn't go to too many places but she had a ball. She knocked on the door and would say "Trick or Treat" before they even opened the door. At Chris' grandma's apartment building an older lady invited us down to her apartment for candy.

Madi: "Trick or Treat"
Lady: "Here you go, do you want to give one to your Mommy?"
Madi: "Okay"...takes the candy and puts in her pail "I need one for my Daddy too."
Lady: "Oh, of course!"
Madi: takes the candy and puts in her pail..."Thank you"

Madi had no intention of giving us that candy. I think the only thing she saw the whole night was all the big bowls of candy, she wanted as much candy as she could get her little hands on.

Once we got to my parents house, we stayed for a bit to let her run around. She was so high on candy, she was running laps and literally would just fall over, she couldn't even stand or walk straight. She hadn't even had that much...yet!! But she had so much fun handing out candy to their trick or treaters. It was so cute! The doorbell would ring and she would run for the bowl on the table saying "I'll do it, I'll do it!" We would open the door and she would say "Trick or Treat" and put candy in their bags. As soon as they would leave she would run for her bag and have to get more candy out of Mom's bowl for herself. And she must have started at least four suckers and then want a different one.

After Mom's we stopped at our neighbor's house and Kenley (who is Madi's age) stopped shortly after and they both just ran and screamed and had a ball. It was too funny to watch. They probably won't want us back next year!! We finally made it home at 10:30! WAY past bedtime.

It was a little disappointing at first and I really didn't think we were going to end up doing any trick or treating, but it turned out to be a great evening and we really enjoyed ourselves. Hope everyone had a great evening!

Love, Amy


My little cowgirl!