Halloween VII

I'm so glad I bought that Elsa dress a few weeks ago, planning ahead for Halloween. So proud of myself. But no! What does Isabelle want to be for Halloween? Charlotte. As in Charlotte's Web.

I melt over the fact that she LOVED our experience reading the book together. But she doesn't understand that Charlotte is a character from a book published in 1952 which was turned into a cartoon character in 1973. Nobody wants to be Charlotte in 2014! Rightly so, there are no spider costumes for 6 year olds right now.

So, this year, we are reverting to the time of the olden days, when I was a kid. It's the homemade costume year. Probably her last. But, as I'm not a crafty gal, I've recruited Mom-Mom SuSu (Susan DiSabatino) to help us out (aka, do all the work) so that Isabelle can be the most beautiful spider creeping and crawling her way around our neighborhood next month.

Even when I asked her to change her mind because I was so afraid of spiders, she sweetly said, "but Mommy, Charlotte was the best friend that anyone could ever ask for, and I want to be that kind of best friend all the time."

Charlotte? You win, girl.

Farewell, Princesses

Last year, Isabelle politely asked me to remove Dora, Backyardigans and a few other favorite cartoons from our DVR so she could upgrade to the "big kid" cartoons. It was a sad day for me, realizing that my little one was growing up so fast.

With a treasure trove of dress-up costumes in her room, we haven't had to purchase a Halloween costume for her yet. This is the first year she wanted to go to the store and pick a new one out. All of her dress-ups, apparently, were for little kids and she was "done" being a Princess, at least for Halloween.

To avoid the mayhem of the store, knowing she wouldn't be able to decide, I let her shop online first. We still went to the store to buy the final choice but we did our deciding before we got there.

This year's masterpiece was a pink Supergirl costume, which was pretty darn cool if I must admit it. She wanted to be Batgirl but the store didn't have it in stock yet by the time we got there so she opted for the Supergirl one instead. They were essentially the same costume (boots, mask, glovelets, a cape) but the insignia was just Supergirl instead of Batgirl.

My little Supergirl looked awesome and had a fun day with a storybook parade where she dressed up as Fancy Nancy, a Halloween party at school, and trick-or-treating with friends.