Halloween 08

Maelee changed her mind every other day for the last two months about what she was going to be. First she wanted to be a vampire. Have any of you heard the best soundtrack ever...JUNO? There is a vampire song in there that both of my girls love!!! So that is what Maelee was going to be. Then she changed her mind to a Devil Witch. She said she was still going to wear vangs, so technically she was going to be a Devil Witch Vampire. Then she did not like the tu tu part of her costume that Grandma had made for her. So I took her shopping for other witch costumes then Delana could wear the other one and I could be a witch too. Every time we went shopping her idea for costumes changed. We left several stores with her kicking and screaming that she wanted to be Hannah Montana. I am sorry, I am a terrible mother, but I just could not stomach paying $40 for a plastic outfit. I told her that if she wanted to be Hannah then we could find her something from home. She already had the wig. That was not good enough. So we would leave fighting. Then she had her mind made up two days before Halloween to be little mermaid. We have a costume already that I bought at a clearance sale after Halloween several years ago. I was happy she had made up her mind. Then the day before Halloween and the day of she had changed again to be a hula girl. We had the stuff for the too. I did not care, as long as we were not paying $40 for a Hannah costume. Then she went shopping one hour before we were supposed to leave the house Halloween night with her father because like her, he had not made up his mind about what he wanted to be. She came home from being with him with a set of pom poms from the $ store. I asked if she had decided to be a cheerleader now. She said no but that she had changed her mind back to the little mermaid, this was just 20 minutes before walking out the door!!!! She had just bought the pom poms for play. She went to the basement to get her little mermaid costume. Remember that this whole time her big argument about being the witch is that she did not want to wear a tu tu of any kind. She has had it with the tu tus and is done with them. So she comes up from the basement (now just 10 minutes before we have to be out the door) and says "I am going to be a cheerleader. I am going to wear the red and white tu tu." So in the end she was something that she never planned on being and she wore a dreaded tu tu. The funniest thing was that all night long she kept telling all of her friends "I was supposed to be what Delana is but there is no way that I was going to put a tu tu on." It was like she was telling her friends that she was way too cool and mature for a tu tu, all the while forgetting that she actually had a tu tu on. That girl is so funny.

Scott decided to be a cowboy. He wanted batman but they sold out the week before Halloween. Delana and I went as ourselves, two little witches. Delana was a way cuter witch. We had a great evening at Trunk or Treat. and then we headed down to our friends home who throw the most awesome Halloween party every year. They are the best party host and hostess. They always go all out. They even had a really scary haunted house set up in the basement. We had a ton of fun.