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Tuesday, October 11, 2005
HalloweenI always enjoyed the month of October as a child. I loved the fall colors, and most of all, I loved Halloween. There is just something wonderful about free candy. Well, it wasn't exactly free, we did have to work for it... I was fortunate to marry a man who loves Halloween as much or, dare I say, more than I do. Our first year together, we were the Ghost Busters complete with proton packs. Through the years, we have always managed to find a theme to follow in our costumes.
Our love of the holiday has definitely rubbed off on our children. The five year old, wanted to be Princess Fiona a few years ago, and we decided that the theme for the year would be Shrek. Daddy made a perfect Shrek, and our poor new baby was dressed up in a Donkey costume on her first Halloween. I still feel a little bad about that, but hey it really could have been worse. I could have made her a round pumpkin or something.
This year, the five year old started talking about Halloween a bit early. As soon as her birthday in September was finished, she knew that the next big celebration would be in October. She started talking about her costume. This little girl is quite complicated at times, she loves all things scary that have to do with Halloween, but she also likes to be pretty as well. She could not decide on one costume. One day she announced that she would be a princess, snow white to be exact, and a day later she wanted to be a scary skeleton. When Grandma sent a gift certificate for her birthday, we knew that we would have to use the money on her Halloween costume. I took her to the store, and we spent a very entertaining hour choosing the perfect costume.
This year, she wanted to be pretty yet scary. Thus the princess versus skeleton question. She waffled back and forth between the two ideas for at least 30 minutes. As I was beginning to feel frustrated with her indecisiveness, we found the perfect combination. We decided upon a black dress (scary) that has pretty orange wings (pretty), and she calls herself a "scary butterfly". Yes folks, she is dressing up as a monarch butterfly. I am just afraid that someone will tell her that she is cute instead of scary... Perhaps I will make a sign that says "Please tell me that I am scary!" seeing as she can't read yet, I may be able to get away with it.
