Halloween Costumes

Every year (okay, the last 3 years) Bill and I plan elaborate costumes for the girls. We come up with the idea and then I make the costume. Maddie was Wonder Woman when she was one. The girls were Pebbles and BamBam last year. This year, we racked our brains for weeks to come up with a good idea. We had it all planned out -- they would be aviators (I found the old-fashioned hats online) and we would make the wagon into an airplane. We would pull the girls in it on Halloween night.

We thought it was a great idea and couldn't wait to get started.

That is, until we took a trip to Target one night. We went by the Halloween costume area and Maddie's eyes lit up and got round as saucers as soon as we saw it -- a Belle from Beauty and the Beast costume. She looked at Bill and I with pleading eyes and begged to put it on. We let her try it on (just putting her arms through the sleeves, nothing else. She stared at herself in the mirror for at least 5 minutes. Twirling and looking over her shoulder. It came time to go and we couldn't get the thing off her. We ended up buying it and now she will be Belle for Halloween. Josie, who really doesn't care much at this point, will be Tinkerbell. We looked over at her with her little blond ponytail and it just fit.

Maddie just turned 3 years-old. I thought we had at least one more year to go before she had opinions of her own.