A day in the life.....: Fright Night

Friday night was Fright Night at the Y. Erik and I decided to ‘do it up’ right and brought Ben with us to keep Alec company. The first part of the evening (leaving the house and driving to Biddeford) consisted of Alec throwing a MAJOR temper tantrum about ?. Yep we are not sure what the catalyst was or why it continued. Had we not already made plans with Ben we would have never step foot out the door. Listening to Alec meltdown gave Erik and I the same feeling as listening to someone scrape their nails over a chalkboard. Ben had some funny commentary on Alec’s meltdown which brought us a few moments of levity. Ben kept asking Alec why he was crying and then telling him to ‘be quiet Alec’. We stopped for dinner at McD. Only quality foods for these children. :) And finally the beast was quieted. Very well could have been the MacRoy hunger meltdown. It’s not pretty folks.

And then off to Fright Night. We got lucky this year because the weather was down right balmy. It was freezing last year! This event is free to the public and the public showed up for it! Parking was mayhem but once parked it was smooth sailing. We got the boys costumed up:

And we were off! 1st stop was to waiting in line for the hayride. They hayride pulls you to the upper parking lot where the ‘trunk-or-treating’ was happening and then from there you loop through the spooky woods back to the other side of the Y for games, roasting marshmallows and crafts. Trunk-or treating is the where the businesses decorate their car trunks and hand out candy. We saw lots of Alec’s teachers there and even his gymnastics coach from Dudziaks . Big smiles for coach Dan! The boys made it through the spooky woods like champs. I wasn’t so sure they would at first but they rallied. Phew! We walked through the game area but never played any because it was too crowded. And the crafts? These boys were out for adventure..not crafts. We walked into the craft room but it was in an exercise room with mirrors – the boys only had eyes for themselves. They spent most of the time watching themselves doing Spiderman moves. And so we moved on….