Trick-or-Treating

We had a blast on Halloween this year - once again taking the kids to Avenue F.  This was really the first time Magda got into it and would walk up to the houses by herself or, preferable, with Kayleigh by her side.

Over the last few weeks, Magda vacillated between different costumes.  For most of the time she wanted to be Ariel, then she wanted to be Zlatovláska (Princess Goldenhair) and wanted a wig made "like Dominik had in the summer" (for my brother's Michael Jackson impersonation, my aunt made him a wig from a skein of wool and it looked horrid), then she wanted some "colored hair spray" (after getting colored in a school carnival), and along the way she also wanted to be "something scary" (since Kayleigh was going as a witch).  Eventually she ended up going as a "princess goblin" which consisted of a black outfit, a punk girl wig, a cape, fairy wings and face paint.  She totally loved it and I was pleased that we avoided Disney, cheap commercial costumes or lots of work (I had to replace her waist band, but that was nothing).

For Simone we borrowed a wonderful Eeyore costume from Kathy H.  She looked disgustingly adorable dragging her treat bag behind her and wandering around through the crowds.  To our surprise, she actually kept the hood on for quite  a bit of time. Simone was having a blast too, fascinated with all the dressed up people around her and completely unaware that any of that was supposed to be scary.



Jennifer went as a (unintentionally) creepy clown.  She had gotten a wig and I tried to put her face paint on.  But we were running short on time, Magda wanted to help and Simone was getting into the way too.  So Jennifer ended up looking like something between Heath Ledger's Joker and Steven King's IT - with glasses.  I allso used some of the pain to turn myself into an office zombie.