Oct 31, Happy Halloween!!

Stacy here.
What a great and fun day it was! We started the morning off with our usual routine of getting kids off to school with their costumes.  Then we came over to the hospital and got Lindsey half ready for this afternoon.  She wore a fun "Wonder Woman" costume to school this morning to throw everyone off of what her "real" costume was going to be.  After she went to school, I took Gage and went to Hunter's class party, while Jason stayed at the hospital to get some work done.  After Hunters party, I grabbed him and headed back to the hospital so he could trick-or-treat with Lindsey.  Lindsey's nurse was Shannon today.  She did an amazing job on Lindsey's makeup, she is quite the artist!! Lindsey skyped with her class back in Oregon and enjoyed seeing all her friends. When everyone was ready, we headed out on our trick-or-treating venture.

It was quite the scene to behold.  Kids everywhere! They had tables set up by every department on all 4 floors of the children's hospital. There were departments we had no idea even existed. Each table had little toys or candy or both.  They handed out bags to all the children at the beginning.  By the end, we had to get an extra bag because our initial bags were over flowing.  On the ground floor, they had a haunted house set up.  It was pretty hilarious!  Lindsey had been looking forward to going through it for days.  When we got there, she asked if they would make it extra scary.  Hunter and Gage were latched on to my arms and forced to go inside.  As soon as we got in the door, Hunter put his head behind Lindsey and never looked up once.  At the end there was a table of candy, that was the only time he looked up.  He got his candy and then realized there was no way out.  Him and Gage started panicking.  When they realized the doors were about 8 ft. from where we were standing, but back towards the inner haunted house, they bolted.  A nice man with a mask on went to open the door for them and Hunter and Gage thought he was coming after them.  They squealed and started crying.  The man quickly took off his mask and tried to console them, but the damage had been done.  We all laughed and Hunter cried until the next table, which was only at the end of a short hallway where we came out. 

Sierra joined us shortly after going through the haunted house.  We didn't make it to her concert, but she said it was mostly for students anyway and that it went well.  After our last little bit of trick-or-treating, Lindsey wanted to go through the haunted house one more time with Sierra. As soon as Hunter and Gage saw the door to the haunted house, they froze and refused to go any further.  So, I waited outside with them while Sierra, Lindsey and Dad went through.  While we were out in the hallway waiting, we heard a loud scream.  I thought it was part of the scary music they had playing.  Come to find out, it was Sierra who had her candy bag up and ready to attack the person scaring her.  Fortunately for him he got away.  Later we ran into one of the guys who put on the spooks.  He said Sierra won the award for thee loudest scream.  It was loud!

After we were finished, we returned to Lindsey's room to get her plugged in.  Jason, I and the boys ran off to catch whatever we could of Megan's game.  Sierra stayed with Lindsey to play games and have a little party, the two of them.  We arrived to Megan's game to watch them score the last 3 points to win the first game and then all of the second game that they won by quite a bit.  So, tomorrow is the final game of the playoffs.  It is Jordan against Termin.  The only school they have lost to.  It will be a good game!

We returned to the hospital, to find Sierra reading a book and Lindsey sleeping (quite the partiers).  Jason took all the kids back to the RMH to attend the festivities there and I stayed here with Lindsey.  Her dressing change was done and her site looks good, so she can go to once a week dressing changes. Yeahhh!! After her nap she had a 2nd wind.  We went for an evening walk to the CVICU.  She was given a large bag of candy to do some reverse treat-or-tricking.  She was able to get rid of most of the bag to nurses and a few patients.  She had a fellow do a cartwheel for her and a nurse do part of a song from Oliver that the nurse had performed in 7th grade.  It was quite funny! All-in-all it was a great day! By far, the most fun day in the hospital yet.  One more month down, time to start the next one.

This morning heading off to school.  Two super "Cool" girls.

 

 





Heading out to go trick-or-treating.

Mandy and Sandra from PT coming to visit.  They were olympians holding their "human flaming torch."

Gage wanted to do it too!

Lindsey's teacher Kevin.  Great costume.

Trick-or-treating at the "Where's Waldo" table.



Pictures from the haunted house. If that thing would have blinked or looked at us....



The lady handing out candy at the end of the haunted house.  You can see Lindsey, but not Hunter or Gage, they were already out the door and half way down the hall.

A haunted house that Lindsey made at school this morning.

 



Our "Super" Team of nurses that care for us! Tracy, Shannon, Tracy, Suzanne, and Kim (I think)?