Halloween

There was trick-or-treating in the morning, Animalia not yet in her costume but wearing a mostly black outfit and a Hello Kitty Halloween t-shirt. We had gone to Joann to buy some ribbon to put a bow in her hair (yep, I was still forcing Dorothy on her) and she found herself a witch hat that she wouldn't let go. It was on clearance. I bought it for her. So it was the mostly black outfit and the hat. She went to Nana's house and we told her to say trick-or-treat and she did and Nana gave her an M&M. We went to Uncle's house and she said trick-or-treat and got candy there too. We saw one of the Tías Grandes and I covertly handed her an M&M and Amalia said trick-or-treat and Tía dropped it in her plastic pumpkin.

Later, we got dressed and went to a Halloween party in a fun neighborhood with lots of decorated houses and hundreds of trick-or-treaters. Animalia, in her Dorothy costume which she loved (I'm the Dorothy girl!) went trick-or-treating. And, right when we needed her to say it, the thing we'd spent all morning rehearsing, she clammed up. Whatever, she got plenty of candy anyway and saw some "Scary monsters!" and some skeletons. She loved the whole experience. All the dressed up kids. The scary noises. The whole thing.

Then home to bed for her and horror movies for us, the grownups. Next year we'll decorate the house for her.