What a wonderful Halloween

I am so happy about this last Halloween. Though my dad was in pain, and as he stated "only fell 3 times this week", and was black and blue in many places, he dressed up for Halloween.

What a wonderful time we had.

Unfortunately my mom was in pain with her stomach again, well more then her stomach, the ultra-sound shows, I told her to go up stairs and rest for awhile. Dad and I would be fine. I think she was glad to hear it and didn't argue with me.

Dad had me dress up a dummy monster stuffed with newspaper on the side of their porch, as I tried to hurry him along, because trick or treating was starting and he had to eat and to take his insulin first (I thought for sure by time he finished the costumed kids would be done).

He came out right after I had finished handing the first group of kids their goodies. He put on his monster mask and I stuffed newspaper where I could see skin, much like the stuffed monster on the other side of the porch. And he sat next to me. I was in the middle of two monsters.

As the little kids came by I would ask them to say "hi to my monster" they would timidly look at him motionless and say their hellos, as they walked away he would say "hi" back to them. Only one little one started crying and we explained that it was only my dad playing like the rest of the kids. Most of the kids really got a kick out of my dad, as did I.

There was a little girl clown that came up and spent about 5-10 minutes with us, we are sure she was not even 5 years old yet. She had so many questions for "the monster" and I think that if it was up to her she would have stayed the whole time with us. She was so adorable and though she never got too close to dad she wasn't scared either. That little girl made my dads day.

My dad made my day.

My brother in law Eric came back sooner then my sister and their little guy Ryan (who just turned 4 a couple of weeks ago) and put on a old lady mask and wig on. So I had 'my grandma' and 'my monster' with me.

When Ryan got back to the house he wasn't really scared, but he wasn't sure what to think of the 2 of them either.

What a wonderful time we had. My daughter and her new guy that she has been hangin' with came over for awhile. What wonderful memories I hope to never lose.