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Happy Halloween.
Oct. 31st, 2006 06:54 pm
And if you don't celebrate it for religious reasons, please, do like everybody else does and shut off your porch light, put a sign on your door. Or at least make life easier for you and me and just don't answer (also like everybody else). I don't need to know why you don't have candy, I just would like to know that you don't, preferably in advance so I don't bother you.
Thanks.
Jenn hadn't really done Ana's costume yet (in fairness, this was in part because Ana changed her mind from "cat" to "butterfly" and didn't inform her parents until the last minute), so I was stuck scrounging around for an outfit for her. I don't mind scrounging, but I like some more time to do it in, y'know? Eventually, Ana got kitted up as the "Pumpkin Princess Butterfly" in her mom's orange Burmese dance shirt, the glittery flamenco shawl (I was upset at Jenn, can you tell? Or else I would never let Ana near these things for fear of my life :P), Ana's purple glittery ballet skirt and star wand, orange pants, these heavy-ass wings made from hangers, and a home-made paper plate mask that was still wet with glue and glitter as I gave it to Ana. It had a stick instead of strings so she could hold it up.
All in all, not a bad costume for 15 minutes work!
We immediately fell in with a family of six or seven girls (and a boy on the way! BIG family!), all of whom thought that the homemade outfit was amazing (YOU MADE IT????), and the baby was cute (when they had their own baby) and that carrying her in a kanga was fascinating and amazing (HOW DO YOU DO THAT????). Very nice kids, very polite. Spent an hour outside, didn't realize. Ana got a lot more haul than I'd expected!
Not a bad day, really.
Thanks.
Jenn hadn't really done Ana's costume yet (in fairness, this was in part because Ana changed her mind from "cat" to "butterfly" and didn't inform her parents until the last minute), so I was stuck scrounging around for an outfit for her. I don't mind scrounging, but I like some more time to do it in, y'know? Eventually, Ana got kitted up as the "Pumpkin Princess Butterfly" in her mom's orange Burmese dance shirt, the glittery flamenco shawl (I was upset at Jenn, can you tell? Or else I would never let Ana near these things for fear of my life :P), Ana's purple glittery ballet skirt and star wand, orange pants, these heavy-ass wings made from hangers, and a home-made paper plate mask that was still wet with glue and glitter as I gave it to Ana. It had a stick instead of strings so she could hold it up.
All in all, not a bad costume for 15 minutes work!
We immediately fell in with a family of six or seven girls (and a boy on the way! BIG family!), all of whom thought that the homemade outfit was amazing (YOU MADE IT????), and the baby was cute (when they had their own baby) and that carrying her in a kanga was fascinating and amazing (HOW DO YOU DO THAT????). Very nice kids, very polite. Spent an hour outside, didn't realize. Ana got a lot more haul than I'd expected!
Not a bad day, really.
