Costume confusion

Ah, Halloween. It has always been one of my favorite holidays, and it's even more fun now with little ones to dress up and parade around the neighborhood. Beth has taken full advantage of all the various costume parties this year, sporting not one, not two, but three different costumes for the season.

She started out as Ariel, the Little Mermaid. We purchased a $25 costume at Target (a bit over-priced, in my book), only to find that it was about 10 inches too long for her. Luckily Nana saved the day, and the costume was shortened to perfection. However, the bottom of the costume is designed to be "mermaid-like", and the narrow opening makes it very, very difficult to walk around in. She wore the costume to cousin Jack's birthday party, and to a Halloween party at Daddy's work, but grew quite tired of shuffling her feet in tiny steps. I refused to buy another outfit for her, so after a few tears, out came the bag of old Halloween costumes, and she decided to be a clown for the next couple of parties.

The clown outfit is quite cute, but the pants are a bit big in the waist, so she quickly realized that spending an entire party holding onto your pants is not much more fun than waddling like a mermaid. Back to the bag again, and this time she found a witch costume that one of Daddy's work friends gave to him a couple of weeks ago. Even though she was a witch last year, this costume is so different that she is thrilled to change characters once again. She plans to wear the witch costume to school, and also out in the neighborhood on Halloween night. I think we've finally found a winner.

Luckily Amy's Tinkerbell costume and Erin's Elmo suit have been perfect fits.

As for me, I plan to stay home this year for the first time, and hand out the candy. Since I can barely waddle to the bus-stop these days, I don't think I'm quite up for the trot around our whole neighborhood. We'll be sure to post some pictures, if we remember to bring out the camera! Happy Halloween to all!