Halloween pics

I hate coming up with Halloween costumes for the kids. They're no help at all. Bethany hates dressing up, so there's never anything that she voluntarily wants, and she outright rejects anything else I may suggest. Meagan's easier, but is still too young to really tell me what she wants. After a couple years of spending a lot of time making costumes that they hated, I decided that this year I would just buy something. So we all headed to the store to look at costumes. Once again, Meagan was pretty easy to please. After looking at a couple of costumes, she picked out a green M&M. It turned out to be slightly too small for her, but not so small that it didn't work. There's one down. Then I found an easy one for Sean, too--a little doggie/sleeper deal. It's really cute, and really easy. Bethany, on the other hand, refused anything we found. For days, anytime we went to a store with costumes, I'd have her look and tell me if there was anything she liked. She'd barely even glance at them before she'd say no. I kept telling her that she had to wear something if she wanted to go Trick or Treating, but she didn't really seem to care. Finally, only a few days before our ward Trunk or Treat, I was at Joann, and saw some tulle. She's never minded wearing her leotard to gymnastics, so I decided to just sew a little tulle skirt and add it to the leotard. I thought that it would be minimal enough that she wouldn't object. I put it on her when we got to the church, and I was right, she didn't seem to mind too much. They had a great time at the Trunk or Treat (even if it doesn't look like it in the pictures).

The Trunk or Treat was on a Tuesday, and Halloween this year was on Saturday. After we'd gotten home from the ward party, Bethany said she didn't want to wear her costume anymore. All week long I told her she didn't have to wear it if she didn't want to, but if she wanted to go Trick or Treating, she had to wear something. She told me she didn't want to go Trick or Treating. Over and over she said that. She really meant it. On Saturday night, she was still saying it. Then Meagan said she'd rather have a bath than go Trick or Treating, so I put them in the tub, and thought that was that. About 7:00 they got out, and then of course Meagan started crying that she wanted to go Trick or Treating. Sigh. I wasn't going to give in, because it was already so late, but I could tell that Nate really wanted to take them out. So I blow dryed Meagan's hair and got her in her costume. So then Bethany finally wants to go, too. Turns out it was a moot point about her costume, since I went to get it and found that Meagan had had a potty accident on top of it. At the last minute we cobbled together a costume for Bethany out of Nate's work boots and my old uniform. It was kinda cute, but Bethany had a really hard time clomping around in the boots. I stayed home with Sean, and Nate's mom sat out in the driveway handing out candy. Nate and the girls weren't gone for very long, but at least they got to go. And who was the one who didn't want to stop? Bethany of course.