Saturday, October 31, 2009

Halloween 2009

Halloween started probably in September with Lillian saying she wanted to be a cat for the occasion. Great but she wanted to be a blue cat, specifically calling it the Cinderella cat. Now she is not allowed to have "character" toys so I was a bit stumped about how she came up with this idea. After informing me of how she wanted her costume, no tutu skirt and frills, we found a cat pattern and set out to look for fabric. Luckily Joe reminded me that if we got the fabric like Cinderella, the costume would look silly and not at all like a cat. So I took her to some fabric shops and she picked out this funky flower fleece fabric. At least it was a bit furry like a cat! (She had originally picked out a cute leopard print fabric and should have bought it but I had to try one more store!) So that is how she ended up as the Rainbow Flower Kitty.



So the costume got made (even with breaking my sewing machine, borrowing a machine and hair pulling and foot stamping on my part). I did not make the hood that the pattern had because Lillian informed me she was not going to wear a hood. So I re-purposed her ears from last year and was done with the headband. I also did not make the elastic for the wrists or ankles, we just used pretty gold ribbon. The red glitter shoes were all Lillian's idea. I found some cute shiny pink shoes that matched the oink on the fabric perfectly but once she saw the red ones, that was it. Lillian was talking to Granny on the phone one afternoon and invited her up for Halloween so show off her spooky decorating skills.

I had to work the day of Halloween but Joe and Granny took Lillian to get the pumpkins and around one of the shopping centers to trick-or-treat. That night we headed to the Governor's Mansion (a tradition) where Lillian fell asleep on the 10 minute ride and got super scared by a person popping up out of a coffin. She was shaking so bad that Joe picked her up.



We headed back home and saw tons of kids out in our neighborhood so we decided to go down two streets. This was her first time trick-or-treating at houses and she loved it. She did not love some of the lawn decorations and spooky music but she had a great time. After each house, she we meet us and say "More candy. I got more candy!" She asked if she could eat candy and we told her once we got home she could have a piece. As SOON as she had 2 feet in the door, she asked to eat her candy. She picked out a lollipop and hasn't really asked for much more than that.