The kids had been anticipating Halloween since Thanksgiving. They changed their minds about their costumes on a daily basis. Five days before the great day, Devlin was persuaded to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, and Ceilidh resigned herself to being Snow White. It was explained that she had lovely black hair just like Snow White, not orange like Ariel's (her first choice). Aisling accepted her junior turtle assignment without a fuss.
On Friday morning, Ceilidh woke up at 5 am, on the mistaken belief that it was Halloween. Her confusion was understandable since Devlin was getting dressed up in his costume for school. She got to don her costume and have her face painted too, but it was gently explained that Halloween wasn't until Saturday. To distract her from the threatening tears, we promised to carve the pumpkins that night. That worked.
On October 31st, both Devlin and Ceilidh were up early. They wanted to know when it would be time to go for candy. Surprisingly, we managed to get Ceilidh down for a nap, despite her excitement. And feed them dinner. Before the frenzied excitement began. Extra layers of clothing to be found and worn because no one wanted a jacket to hide the costume. Faces to be painted, and re-painted. Treat bags to be located. All in between handing out treats to the neighbourhood monsters. Finally, able to send off kids with Daddy, while I got to enjoy a few treats and clean up the chaos.
Since there weren't many trick or treaters this year (perhaps the swine flu was the scariest monster out there), it was great night for all. Lots and lots of candy for the little monsters, and lots of left-over candy for Daddy.
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