Better late than never, eh? Hard to believe that Halloween was almost 6 weeks ago.
I talked the girls into being ghosts this year. I always wanted to be a ghost, so this is how I was fulfilling my childhood fantasies…
The costumes were the classic pillowcases sewn together with cut-out eye holes. I added a customized touch by **attempting** to write the Chinese character for “hungry” on the costume. Sarah and Rachel are constantly complaining they’re hungry (Sarah is an eating machine, Rachel’s an echo chamber). Hence the characters.
I was having alot of trouble reading my Chinese dictionary at the time — the print was too small, and I need new glasses. So I’m hoping I actually wrote out “hungry”.
Rachel really got into being a ghost. She would run around the house, trying to make ghost sounds.
I did have one freak-out when I was finishing the costumes. I had Rachel put on her costume and … she looked like a Klansman. Yikes! I had made a very pointy head — I misjudged the curve in the head.
After I screamed and pulled the costume off Rachel (much to her bewilderment), I had Sarah try on hers. And I had the same issue. Needless to say, the problem was quickly fixed!
Both kids wore their costumes to school that day. When I went to Rachel’s daycare for the Halloween parade, they had just finished a snack of pumpkin-shaped cookies with orange icing. Instead of taking the costume off to eat, like I had been telling her, she ate the cookie through … an eye hole.
Her teachers thought I’d be mad, but I thought it was the funniest thing I’d ever heard. You can see from this last picture the “fruit” of her cookie eating labor.
Sydney was full of hijinks on Halloween. She jumped up on the dining room table when she thought no one was looking.
Busted!!
Then, of course, I made her pose with the kids in their costumes. Have you ever seen a dog with a guiltier look?
At least Little Macalester hadn’t learned to jump on the table… yet.