Halloween was a blast with Emma this year. She was Beauty and Cassie went as the Beast. She thought it was so fun and both Cassie and Emma spent the weekend with me.
I asked Emma if she was going to go trick or treating? She told me “NO… Treat!” she didn’t want any tricking. When I went over there, they were having trouble getting her in her dress. I finally did and she cried that it was owie on the sides. I said “is it itching?” she said “yes”. So I went to put a shirt under it and she didn’t want to put it back on. Took a while and we did get it back on her. She was satisfied that grandma fixed it and she was ready to go “treating”.
She would see a pumpkin and say “oh, cute” and she would see a ghost and say “oh cute”. She would say “thank you” and “please” and “treat” but not trick. She really thought that was fun to get candy door to door. Then she had to sleep in her dress. She wanted to wear it all day Saturday too but we told her she needed a bath. She loves her baths so she gave up the dress.
Saturday Cassie and I took her to Spearfish and she talked Cassie out of all kind of things. One of the things she talked her out of was a back pack doll diaper bag. Inside it was a lot of different things including two boxes of “cereal” When we got back out to the car, Cassie opened the bag for her. She dug through the bag of thing until she got a hold of one of the boxes of cereal. She was trying to open it and I told her that she shouldn’t, it was a pretend thing and nothing in it so if she tore it open, it would ruin it. She tossed it over on the seat and said “Oh shoot” So then she dug out the other box and I said “that one is pretend too” She shook it and tossed it over her shoulder and said “darn it!” I said “are you hungry?” She said “well… YES” so we went to eat.
She sure enjoys her grandpa. They had a great time playing hide and seek and trying to scare each other. Cassie bought a ghost that is on a line and you string it up and it moves across the string saying “booo” They put it in the living room and Emma got a bit scared of it. She really didn’t like that it was coming towards me. Cassie asked if she wanted her to turn it off and Emma said in a sweet little voice “yes, thank you” so then Cassie said “do you want me to take it down?” and Emma said “yes… thank you” and so she did and wrapped it up. Emma then carried it down like a baby saying “oh cute”. Silly girl.
Today we went to Upton to see Grandma Eda and Grandpa Don. She acted a bit shy to begin with then got warmed up. Grandma Eda gave her a trick or treat bucket saying she had picked it up for her then didn’t get a chance to give it to her before Halloween. That didn’t bother Emma at all, she said “oh cute, thank you” and then she promptly put it on her head as a hat!
We went from Upton to Gillette to see Cassie but by that time it started snowing and we couldn’t stay very long. The ride home was horrible and even Emma was getting scared in the back seat. She really wanted her momma back there with her but I couldn’t pull over since I couldn’t even see much of the road. It was a long trip home from Moorcroft to Sundance. When we got to town I said “thank you Lord for watching over us” and I could hear Emma in the back seat saying “thank you Ron” She is so sweet. I can’t imagine ever loving anyone so much as I do that little girl, well Emma and Jarrod and Cassie and Jordan and whatever future grandchildren I will be lucky to have. Life is good.
