This year we hadn't put too much thought into a costume. M has a SPIO (looks like a unitard) for physical and occupational therapy and her daycare provider remarked once how she looked a bit like a mime when she wore the pants and shirt together. Perfect, we'll just paint her face and she'll be a mime.
The week of Halloween came and I saw the forecast for Sunday. It looked like it would be sunny, but pretty chilly. I started rethinking the mime. As luck would have it, that Friday I had lunch with a co-worker (at a yummy Thai place I didn't know existed). As we left I noticed the consignment shop a couple stores down had their Halloween costumes 1/2 off. Eeyore for $6 --cheap, easy, and WARM!
We started the day at the Children's Garden and after a late afternoon nap it was time to hit the streets. First we headed down our short street, M pushing her shopping cart with her trick or treat bag inside. Our first few stops were fun. She'd look at the offered bowl of candy, at us, and back to the face of the neighbor. We thought, okay, we'll choose for her and she can put it in her bag. Nope, she'd promptly toss it back into the big bowl of candy. How curious this process must have seemed to her. We'd chat with the neighbor a bit and then head to the next house. She kept looking back over her shoulder at the previous neighbor's house probably wondering why we were leaving so soon.
Once we hit the few houses on our street we drove the mile over to her daycare provider. She had set up a table on her porch with about 8 different selections of full size candy bars, packs of gum, snack packs, dog treats and baby food jars for the little ones. M was so excited to see Ms. Jo and probably felt a bit more comfortable. She reached for a Milky Way and dropped it in her basket. She then proceeded to go right down the row ... the next Milky Way, clump-- into her basket. She definitely has the hang of it now and hopefully next year she'll actually be able to eat some of her loot.
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