A Bright Halloween

Ahhhhhh, the joys of Halloween. This year the Ladybug pondered for weeks what she would wear this year to trick-or-treat around the neighborhood. Her choices were a pink princess, a purple princess, and Tinkerbell, which she wore last year. Her decision was finalized the day that her Nana F. sent her a gorgeous new, blue Cinderella dress. The dress by itself is gorgeous, but what really made it stand out was the fiber-optic lights that were sewn into the skirt. The Ladybug immediately took the dress to her room, turned out the lights, pushed the button on the dress and squealed with excitement, "This is really cool!"


Add to that the blue glow sticks that the Bug wore on her wrists, neck, and crown, she looked a bit like a modern-day Cinderella stepping out to go to the nearest rave. The upside of the dress was that we knew where ever she walked, people would be sure to see her. The downside was that everybody could see her... little girls everywhere were trying to trade candy for her dress, ooohing and aaahing as she walked by (yes, I jest... just a bit). But seriously, at one point we walked up to a house where she said the appropriate greeting, "Trick-or-treat!" The man with the candy placed a piece in her basket then proceeded to say, "I have to say, you are definitely the cutest princess I have seen all night." To which she replied, "I know." Clearly we need to work on appropriate, gracious responses to compliments.




Now that Halloween is over, the Ladybug is pondering how much candy she can enjoy per evening. I initially thought of just letting her eat as much as she wanted that first night, then taking the rest away, hoping that she would not want any more sugar for weeks after that. But, Daddy on the other hand thought that wasn't the best idea, opting instead for 2 small pieces of candy per night. I caved and decided that this will work fine... especially if take a bunch of it to school to share with my students. The Ladybug will never know!


So now, the Ladybug spends her evenings pondering which candy she will enjoy that night for dessert. Ohhhhhh, the difficult decisions of a three year old.

I hope everyone enjoyed a great holiday. Don't eat too much candy!

Aloha!

Pumpkins

Yup, once again I have totally neglected my blog (for proof of this, just take a look at the last two posts!). So much has been going on, and I have just not taken the time to update you all with what has been happening out here. Sorry guys, I will try to keep up from now on.

With Halloween just around the corner, The Ladybug, Daddy and I decided to decorate a couple pumpkins to help illuminate our window on Halloween night. This year the Bug chose two characters from her favorite cartoon to be the subjects for our carving. Needless to say, daddy wasn't very happy about the prospect of bringing those characters to life on a couple of gourds. But after some great persuasion from the Bug, Daddy finally caved and started drawing the character's outlines on the pumpkins.

While Daddy was drawing, the Ladybug and I cleaned out the insides of the pumpkins. Her first comment (and lasting one apparently) was, "This is disgusting!" She's correct, it is pretty disgusting, but the end result is always really cool. We saved the seeds for roasting, then started carving (roasting of the seeds is another project for the Bug and I... maybe we will tackle that one tomorrow). Daddy did most of the work with the carving, and Mommy tidied up when he was finished, smoothing the lines around the faces and making sure lots of light was creeping through the carvings. The Bug, well she just walked around telling us how disgusting this whole project was... that was, until we turned off the lights and she got to see the end result. Her comment, "Wow, those are really cool!"


It sure is nice to know that pumpkins are not disgusting any more.

Aloha!

Our Little “Tin-ter-bell”

The Ladybug’s school hosted a Halloween party for all of the children. We originally thought the Bug would dress up as a beautiful purple butterfly (as mentioned in an earlier post). However, Nana F. surprised the Bug with an adorable Tinkerbell costume, shoes and all. So, we tried the outfit on, and all of us were absolutely in love. And to top it off, the butterfly wings from what would have been her original outfit were a perfect match for the Tinkerbell costume. So, here is the bug as the happiest, cutest, most adorable Tinkerbell ever.

A giggly Tinkerbell


The Ladybug pondering the life of a fairie.


Tinkerbell at the party.


A sweet Ladybug fairie.


~~Aloha!

“A Budderflyyy”

Short post. The Ladybug received her wings…her butterfly wings that is. She is so excited at the possibility of flitting around on Halloween as a butterfly that she had to try on her costume the other day. Here she is seen gazing at her lepidopterous image.


Don’t worry, here in South Dakota we will not be allowing our daughter to prance around the neighborhood in October in a mini-skirt. No, she will be wearing 2-inch thick leggings with snow pants over top, 5 sweaters, thermal moon boots with wool socks, three pairs of mittens, a long hand-knitted wool scarf, and a fuzzy wool cap to keep her little ears nice and toasty. Then again with that outfit she should probably just dress as “Randy” from A Christmas Story rather than a petite, fragile little butterfly. We’ll let her decide. Come to think of it she has been prancing around the house lately in both outfits, so who knows what will happen on Halloween. Only time will tell.



~~Aloha