Trick or Treat

I always have big plans for Halloween. I have asked Ryan what she's wanted to be this year for about two months. Her quick reply was Dora. Well if my darling toddler is going to be Dora then my precious infant should be Boots. I was really proud of myself for at least establishing their outfits at least a month ahead of time. I just knew that I would get everything together in plenty of time.

Flash forward to three weeks later and it was time to go to a fall festival thingy. Well, mom had still not gotten any type of costume for her children. Fortunately, my sister got Ryan a Dora princess dress for her birthday last year and honestly, I think I have only gotten it out once, so I think Ryan forgot she had it. So...BAM brand new Halloween costume

Princess Dora
Well, then comes Darby. I just happened to have an old horse costume in our pile of costumes. So the horse costume then turned into Dora's noble steed.

I mean look at them, they look pretty good. I had a concept, the outfits, Ryan even let me put her hair in "princess braids"

Well, flash forward to last night, October 31st. Bill and I decide to pick up the girls at daycare together. He asks which one I want to get and I usually say Ryan, let's face it, it's a better greeting. So as I approached her door all I could hear was screaming...

Please don't let it be my child, Please don't let it be Ryan..please, please, please.

Freaking Crap...

Now the first thing that upset me was not the screaming child, but the fact that the screaming child was not wearing the freaking Halloween costume that I sent her to school in. AHHHHHHH!!!

Her costume was a mess, apparently her afternoon was a mess. No Nap, which is a whole other blog in itself. Spilled her pudding and drink on her dress, ripped a corner of it off. I mean just destroyed.

So I reacted calmly and cooly and said oh well.

Ha, yeah right! Do you guys know me. I was PISSED! I thought everyone is going to be so impressed that I pulled it off with Halloween, but no, no. They just had to have pudding as the snack for Halloween- oh and not make my child sleep. Pissed was not the word for it!

So we had to swing by Walgreens on the way home and the only thing left were devil ears, tail, and pitch fork. I have some serious issues with dressing any child as a devil, but I was at a dead end road. It was this or her pumpkin PJ's. I knew I could deck her out in red, I also knew that I had some cat ears at home and a Leopard dress for Darby.

So what once was Dora and Boots quickly transformed into...
The Dirt Devil and A Leopard

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!