Then Thursday night was spent preparing for Aunt Cici’s , as we were planning on spending the night, so we had to pack change of clothes, as well as bedding.
We also carved the pumpkins. Since we were not going to be home, Kaitlin actually asked did we have to carve them. She said it just seemed like a waste, especially since if uncarved we could use them for Thanksgiving, something I don’t decorate for.
So we settled on only carving one. So only Ally was going to do the pumpkin. She asked me if she had to make a face or could she draw something else. Thinking she was referring to Uncle Aaron pumpkin which had a cat, I said that was fine. Nope she wanted her ABC7 logo from her favorite tv channel. Kaitlin got mad and drew a face over it, which Dad carved (Ally was watching Jeopardy on ABC7 of course), I felt bad, so I carved ABC7 so they would both be happy
Friday morning was a whirlwind of making sure Kaitlin had candy for her friends, Ally had pencils, candy for Ally’s girls club, etc. In mid-morning I surprised Lisa and Chris, there weren’t expecting me to remember Stephie parade. However, I felt this was a very special day for Steph, her first in real school and I knew didn’t have a camera (or it was broke, can’t remember which) and she will some pix. Steph was adorable!!!!
Then it was home to work on packing and loading the cars. Left for Ally’s parade at 1:30pm. It was nice, Ally now insists on going to the MUR in the morning and picked up in the pick up zone. So now I don’t get to talk to the parents.
I dropped Ally at girls club (her social group, it’s working on teaching autistic girls how to act in play settings, there are 5 girls right now.). And was off to pick up Kaitlin, we went straight to Cici’s and hung out with Cici’s 13 month old mastiff, Ruby. We finally figured out how to turn on Cici’s tv. She arrived home 40 minutes after she said she would, but this is Cici, at least she remembered candy.
I was on pick up dinner detail. This should be easy, there is a Jack in the box at the end of Cici’s block. It took me 30 mins. They were really slow, the drive thru was backing up, so when I got the order couldn’t get out. Finally made it back to realize, I forgot ketchup and hot sauce. Cici didn’t have either, called Jeff, Ally was mad in the car as her dinner was 45 mins late, but he stopped at the store for me.
After all that, we took them out trick or treating. They ended up with ¼ a bag full each, which is fine since I wasn’t passing out candy at home, I still had what I bought.
We ended up at Cici’s best friend, Vicky’s and her hubby Tom’s(about 7 houses up). The girls and I stayed till about 9 and Jeff came back about 9:30.
Felt kind of bad that we took over Cici’s room. We got the bed the girls the air mattress. At around 3 Ruby got upset, because Mommy wasn’t in their room, so she barked outside for about 3 mins, then came to the room and decided to join the girls on the air mattress. She stayed till morning.
We managed to get packed up and back home about 9 this morning.
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