Halloween

Halloween was an ORDEAL this year. Seriously. I was so over it by the time we were done with everything!! It was the costume changes that were killing me. Here's the story...Maia has been liking Pippi Longstocking lately. So we talked about her being Pippi for Halloween. I loved Pippi as a kid and so I was sooo excited when she really, really wanted to be Pippi. Up until this point, I have never really put much effort into a Halloween costume. I mean, every year the girls have wanted to be a princess of some sort, so I just sent them to the dress up closet and let them pick what they wanted to wear. But this year, I did some work...not a lot, but still!! So we bought a red wig, I braided hangers and pipe cleaners into it to make it stand up and I hand sewed on some patches on a jumper, found some good tights, painted on some freckles and there we had the cutest Pippi around!! These pictures were taken before Maia's preschool party and I'm so glad I got them because little did I know.....(see continued story below)
So then our ward trunk-or-treat rolls around on the Saturday before Halloween and we are getting ready to go. Elsie finds the unicorn costume in our bin of costumes and is beyond excited to be the unicorn. All of a sudden Maia gets extremely jealous and doesn't want to be Pippi anymore, SHE wants to be the unicorn. I tell her "No, Elsie picked that..blah..blah..blah" and tell her she is being Pippi. Then she wants to be Aurora. I try to reason with her. We talk. We argue. I am determined that she is going to be Pippi. Finally David says to me, "Cres, does it really matter??" and in my head I'm saying, "YESSSS it does!!!" but I give in. Or we (kind-of) compromise. She will be Ariel, that way she will still get use out of the $16 wig I bought, and then I will let her be the unicorn for the real Halloween day of trick-or-treating. So Maia is Ariel, Elsie is the unicorn, and Mason is the cutest little pumpkin I ever did see. (We were running so late because of the costume ordeal, I didn't get pictures!!)


Now on to actual Halloween...Maia jumps right into the (too small) Unicorn costume, overjoyed with excitement. Elsie is going to be Ariel. So we get all dressed up. Then the wig starts bugging her and she doesn't like the costume. And I'm rolling my eyes and trying to not get super frustrated as I send her back to the costume bin to pick out yet another costume.
She decides on a witch and away we go. Seriously though. What an ordeal. Mason is the only one who didn't cause trouble!!