Aliyah has been excited for Halloween for a long time because it meant she could wear her Cinderella dress again. I had been saving it for the Princess Ball and Halloween.
However, last weekend she went to a birthday party where as part of a treasure hunt, the birthday girl's 11-year-old uncle jumped out at the kids with a scary mask. Most of the kids were pretty scared. Aliyah cried and was shaking for the next 30 minutes. Luckily she got over it and was fine.
Then that afternoon we went to Bill's work's Halloween Family Picnic. She saw a boy dressed up in a pretty scary outfit complete with scary mask. He just walked past her and she started screaming hysterically and was so upset and again her whole body was shaking for quite a while. The rest of the day she was so on edge and would freak out for no reason. (It probably didn't help that all she had eaten that day was sugar--fruity pebbles, a cupcake with LOTS of sprinkles, and cotton candy--I couldn't get her to eat anything else with all these treats around.)
After that she was not excited about anything to do with Halloween. She did not want to get even close to her friend's house that had scary decorations.
On Monday, we were carving our pumpkin and she didn't want to do it. She was convinced that there were scary things in it. Luckily we had our neighbors over to carve with us and she saw that their pumpkin wasn't scary and eventually joined in.
Tuesday we had our ward's trunk or treat and she didn't want to go. She sat on our laps or made us hold her during dinner and we barely convinced her to do the trick or treating. She loves treats so much, I was shocked that getting a whole bucket full of treats wasn't making her excited about it. She was so excited to go home.
Then Halloween came around and all day she said she didn't want to go trick-or-treating. I thought maybe she would change her mind towards the evening and especially when she saw people coming to our house collecting candy. But it didn't. So we didn't go trick-or-treating this year. Bill passed out candy, I did laundry, and Aliyah moped around the house whining and being clinging.
Better luck next year, I hope!
1 comment:
Wow! You guys had an exciting Halloween. You just never know what kids are going to do as much as you try to plan ahead. I was totally the little kid that wouldn't put on a costume or want to go trick or treating, so for some reason I expect Dallin to be a complete pain in the neck like I was and am always shocked when he actually behaves. Unfortunately, that does not happen all too often...
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