Trick or Treating

The girls had a very fun Halloween today. I will admit to being glad it's over; it seems like the festivities were really stretched out this year, with a lot of carnivals and parties to attend. But today was pretty mellow for us. We went to Maggie's soccer game, had my parents over for dinner, and finally put on costumes and headed out for a trick or treating jaunt around the block.

Maggie picked her costume from a catalog weeks ago and never wavered in her choice: She really wanted to be a Star Trek officer. Sometimes she watches TNG with me and she quite likes it, especially Dr. Beverly Hills Crusher. But for the costume she went with the classic 60s look with the tall black boots. I also painted some "futuristic" gold eye make-up on her, which she loved.

Audrey, who desperately wanted her costume to somehow fit with Maggie's and yet did not under any circumstances want to wear a Star Trek uniform, decided to be an alien princess. We made her some funny eyeball antenna and tried to paint her face green, but she ended up unhappy with the results. Daddy saved the day be suggesting she be a Monster Princess instead, with green hair and pink fangs. She loved this idea. Her hair was very, very green and got many comments while we were out. It took two shampoos and a tubful of green water before she was back to normal.

For Jane, we didn't plan a costume ahead of time (though I would have loved for her to have been a Tribble, it just didn't work out--plus, I'm pretty sure she would not have agreed to wear a big fuzzy costume). I pointed her to the dress-up bin and tried to tempt her into a dog costume or the crocodile costume Audrey wore when she was two. But Jane picked out a pretty pink princess dress, and that was that. She was so cute when we put it on her. She twirled and swirled, and ran to look in the mirror, where she turned this way and that to fully admire herself. She even let me put bows in her hair, which she hardly ever does anymore.

Before and after our own trick or treating, the girls had a blast handing out candy to the people who came to our house. Maggie especially loved doing this, along with calling out the numbers and costumes for us to make note of on my official stats clipboard. (I'll post separately with our famous stats...we're happy about this year's turnout!)