After a great deal of debate and indecision (you'll see momentarily) everyone got to dress-up and go about the neighborhood begging for candy.
Maddie: After seeing a witch's hat in the store told me she wanted to be a witch for Halloween. So we got it, it was only $5, and of course the next day she said "fairy." "um, no Maddie, we just bought you a hat, you're going to be a witch." "oh, okay, a fairy-witch." After a few more days, and a cute tulle skirt ($4 and 15 minutes later) and orange stripped tights, Maddie was all for being a witch.
Eme: Knew from the beginning of October that she wanted to be Hermione Granger. Easy enough, she wore the HP robe we bought Aidan, a polo shirt, one of the boys' ties, and knee socks. For the hair: I put Eme's hair in braids the night before to get it all wavy and crazy.
Davin: Oh this boy, he keeps me on my toes. Over the past few years he's been: a ninja, the sword weilding bandit from Indiana Jones, and last year a ghost. This year his first choice: a chinese guy (because he could make his own hat). How I miss the days of when I just told him what he'd be. Thankfully I pursuaded him to not be another racially insensitive "guy", it was embarrasing enough two years ago when people asked if he was an arab. This year we settled on being Indian Jones. Easy enough, we had everything already.
Aidan: Didn't mention anything until 3 days before Halloween (the day before the ward trunk-or-treat). He wanted to be a ninja again. He already had the weapons and shirt, I just needed to go buy him some black sweats.
Me: I was under the impression (apparently mistaken) that I needed to dress up for the school's Spooktacular (since I'm on the PTSO). So I spent $6 on tulle, and made myself a fairy skirt. I wore Maddie's Tinkerbell wings-one of Eme's friends stretched out the elastic already, so I just finished over stretching them before I fixed them. Imagine my surprise (humiliation) when I was the only one dressed up, fun.
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