Not a completely happy Halloween

So, this is how I imagined Halloween......

We'd dress up our Spider along with Little Miss Muffet. Mom had found a cute spider costume (which is what Connor said he wanted to be every time we asked him) and she made Savannah's Little Miss Muffet dress. We'd go see family; go to trunk-or-treat for Connor so he could have a new experience of getting a lot of candy, inflatables, food, etc, etc. We'd come home and put the kids to bed and smile the rest of the evening because Connor had such a good time. Let's just say....that's not what happened!

We started off good. The kids cooperated with getting dressed. We went to see Grammy's so she could see them and of course so they could get their goody bags. As we were leaving our pastor's wife and good friend of mine, Laura, stopped by so her youngest son could trick-or-treat and also to give Connor his goody bag. Caleb was nice enough to not wear his mask where Connor would see him because it was one of those one's where you can squeeze the heart and blood runs throughout the face. Danny went over to see the mask and Connor followed and saw it. Not good, but not bad. We then went to Danny's sister's house -Aunt Mel. We waited there for Danny's brother and his 3 kids to stop by. While we were waiting, Uncle Dave - being the good uncle that he is - asked Connor if he wanted to help him give out candy. Connor was very excited about helping! The very first person that came to the door was a girl with the "Scream" mask (from the movie Scream) and dressed in all black. Connor went running to the door - stopped half way there and ran back. He was about to cry and said, "I didn't like that." He was ready to go bye bye after that. But we waited for the rest of the family. Then, they got there and the youngest was dressed up in something scary. Poor Connor didn't know what to think. We explained to him that they were dressed up like he was and were just kids. He got the concept because when we went back to Grammy's so Granddaddy could see them he asked, "Are there any scary kids in there?" Needless to say we didn't go trunk-or-treat because I was afraid there would be a lot of scary outfits there. We just went home. Once we were home all was good though. He did have fun helping Daddy carve the pumpkin and he was very glad about the candy. He loves candy!! So, it wasn't exactly a Happy Halloween - but at least there was no crying - just almost!