I love Halloween, I'm not sure why... (candy)...maybe it is the fact that it takes place during my favorite season of the year... (candy)...I do like a good spooky scare every now and again... (candy)...but I think it must be the (candy) creativeness of the costumes and dressing up that makes me love it so much.
Oh, the candy is nice too.
This year, Hailey dressed up as a princess. Since she already has some diva-like behaviour, 'Princess Hailey' wasn't much a a stretch. In all honesty...what she really wanted to be was (and I quote) a 'scary, dinosaur princess ghost'... but I had a hard time finding that costume at the store, so we went with just a regular pink princess.
At three years old, Hailey can finally physically go Trick-or-Treating, even though she still doesn't quite get the concept of the holiday. Halloween fell on a somewhat chilly Saturday this year - the best of all days for running around the neighborhood. We quickly ate dinner at home, answering the door for the first wave of daylight candy beggars. Hailey got very excited at the idea of other kids coming up to her house. She anxiously watched out the window for Trick-or Treaters. When the rang the bell she ran to the door and asked them all ...'Who are you?'
We decided we would go to my parents' neighborhood for Trick-or-Treating and make their house the first stop. Hailey didn't want to put on her costume until we got to her grandparents' house, so we made sure she had warm clothes and off we went.
Then she fell asleep in the car on the trip to my parents....great.
What's the problem with that you ask?
That means we had to wake her up to go Trick-or-Treating. In our household, anyone who doesn't wake up naturally, on their own... is in an instant bad mood. Instant....bad.... it's a quirk we have obviously handed down to our only offspring. We almost didn't go to any houses for Halloween this year.
It was the classic argument, I don't want to wear:
* a shirt under my costume - or-
* a jacket over my costume.
I understand that argument from the kid side, I wouldn't either. In fact I remember having that very same fight with my mother (I'm sure she's smiling right now). But have you seen how cheap the costumes you buy from the store are?!? The fabric is one step above wearing a sleeve of air!
So...Hailey had a meltdown and we almost went home. Fortunately, we decided to go out to houses we knew wearing street clothes and holding a wand. We ended up at the Browns' house (our wonderful, close friends) and Hailey donned her costume and ran around for the rest of the evening. Thank you Browns (all of you we visited on Halloween) for helping to save our holiday!
Everything turned out fine in the end. In fact...now that it's over, I'm glad the abbreviated door knocking led to having less candy in the house.
Mmmm...candy. It just might be one of my few *cough, cough* weaknesses.
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