Oh boy, what a blast we had this weekend. On Friday I thought my mommy was staying home, she certainly did not go off running while it was still dark out, like she always does. She was in her jammies even when daddy and Jaden left. I thought it was my lucky day. But she left anyway. That’s ok, I was starting to get really sleepy, because I normally sleep all day when everyone’s gone, and it was a real struggle to keep myself awake. I was snuggled with her on the chair and as soon as I nodded off to sleep, she would wiggle around reaching for the laptop or the TV remote, or just plain squeeze me mad. Before she left she took me out to the backyard anyway, and I got all excited to see the leaves flying around. The breeze was a tad brisk and my hair was getting in my eyes a lot! I mustered up enough energy to chase a few leaves, but always ended up flopping down on my stomach in the grass, which my mommy found cute because she laughed lots.
They didn’t come home till it was dark, and it was only to grab me and go off again. Thank goodness they remembered to give me a few minutes in the backyard, I really needed that break because I slept all afternoon! In the car they were all excited and they were talking about a torch, that apparently mommy and Jaden saw at the rec centre by her school, and also at the lake. I think my mommy has pictures of it to share. I don’t understand why they were all so worked up over a stick on fire but whatever makes them happy. What makes me happy is being with all of my humans.
So we were going to this big party downtown. I’ve never been to this place. It was raining and I was getting wet. I didn’t know you were supposed to walk under that thing my daddy was holding up, but it wouldn’t have done anything because there were puddles on the road and my legs aren’t tall enough to keep me out of it. There were a lot of people and I think it freaked me out, even though I kept up my big boy stance. Finally my mommy said I was too wet, so daddy picked me up and tucked me inside his warm jacket, which meant his sweater was getting wet too! We stood around for quite a while, and watched the crowd in front of us; they were watching something up on stage, but we were too far away and all we could see was a big TV. There were lit fishes floating around amongst the crowd, and people had light around their necks and wrists! Jaden was getting bored and I moved to mommy’s jacket because daddy had to put her up on his shoulders. Then we heard a loud cheer and guess what, along comes the stick on fire! Someone in a little car was holding it up and everyone went wild with cheering. Yey, count me in on the cheering, whatever it was for. Jaden cheered the loudest when this girl, Jeneece, took the torch (that’s what it’s really called, not stick on fire grin!) and lit the cauldron (What’s that? From my snuggly spot inside mommy’s jacket, I couldn’t really see!). And just as soon as I managed to get warm and stop shivering, we all started walking back to the car. Well they walked, mommy decided I was too tired and wet to walk in puddles again, and I agreed!
The next day, Jaden put on this really flowy, lacy dress. I thought she might like us to play with it so I tried grabbing it in my mouth but she got really mad and sent me away. Mommy painted her face so she looked really scary and she had red lips. But she didn’t want to put on the fake blood. She had a plastic bucket shaped like a pumpkin. They put me in my playpen so I guess they were going somewhere I wasn’t allowed, but they came back shortly and I had another go at the lacy sleeves of Jaden’s dress. Unsuccessful again.
The rest of the night freaked me out. First, someone knocked on the door, and Jaden and daddy opened it and gave candy to some people outside who were scary- and weird-looking, while I was stuck behind my playpen that mommy set up in the hallway. Then daddy and Jaden left, and I think I saw them go to the house across the street but I’m not sure. Mommy was holding me up by the window and I saw shadows that I growled at. When daddy and Jaden came home they went outside to light sparklers and I was left inside sniffing at the crack in the door. I wasn’t too serious about wanting to go outside really. There were lots of booming going on and I didn’t like it one bit. Daddy said it sounded like there were lots of fireworks and firecrackers going on.
It had been a crazy two days already, and there was still Sunday left. Thankfully mommy was also exhausted, and after Jaden went to bed, mommy and daddy sat around watching TV for a while, with me snuggled under a blanket on mommy’s lap. Then we went to bed, finally. I’ll tell you about Sunday another time.
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