Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Halloween Twenty Spook Teen

Halloween 2018 was the usual mix of incomprehensible costumes and rain. Suzanne went as Carmelita Spats*. Do you know who that is? Neither does anyone else! But she loved it, and I loved seeing her hair curled into ringlets, which Barb did three times -- a lot of effort on both Barb's and Suzanne's parts. Once for the Harvest Festival, once for a costume party, and once for ole Halloween itself.

Elizabeth, as you certainly can't tell from the photo, was The Monster Under the Bed. I had suggested that we suspend a toy bed above her head to give folks at least a fighting chance of understanding her costume. My suggestion was roundly rejected.

No matter. The kids had fun embodying their characters, and they came home with a huge haul of candy. This was the first year when I stayed home and greeted trick-or-treaters while the kids went out with Barb and Wendy. I kind of liked it, as I am a fuddy-duddy. I am trying to resist the transformation into fuddy-duddiness, but I'm 48 and it gets harder and harder with each passing year.

I really love how my kids consider Halloween costumes all about THEM. They don't care if YOU don't get it. They are having fun, and if part of that fun is confounding the adults, all the better.

That's Lily as a cardboard box, Elizabeth as The Monster Under the Bed, Suzanne as Carmelita Spats, and Kai as a black panther (not, I'm pretty sure, the superhero The Black Panther).
Elizabeth organizing and categorizing her candy. Probably a quarter of the haul was donated to the Candy Fairy, who ensures that the girls get candy at the next candy-oriented holiday.

*Carmelita Spats is a not-major character in the 13 books called A Series of Unfortunate Events. These books are Suzanne's Harry Potter. Carmelita is a villainous brat who refers to her enemies as "cakesniffers." Suzanne, who never dresses up -- she never wears a dress! -- seemed to have a lot of fun pretending to be the fancy-schmancy Miss Spats.


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