Don't know what caused the technical problems below. Here's try #2.
Catherine was a specific fairy called "a water sprite"- whose name was Lily. She was very particular about this. She even wrote us a full 2 page description with more details and information about water-sprites in general and Lily, specifically. I made her jacket. I wasn't fully on board with the water-sprite theme until I saw this fabric in the prom-clearance fabric and it looked like something a water-sprite would wear. So here she is. She looked very cute.
By looking at this happy picture, you would never know the drama that surrounded Emma's costume. Our cousin Abby Cannon let us borrow this very cute fairy costume which went so perfectly with the afore-mentioned water-sprite. Well the night before Halloween as we were laying everything out before bed, Emma starts pulling out her different church dresses and asking if she can wear one of them instead. Through all this I was battling internally with deciding whether "it really didn't matter and I should just let her wear whatever she wanted, even if it looked like she had no costume at all" and feelings of "no! My child WILL look cute on Halloween - esp when the costume is all ready to go!" When I finally got her to explain what the problem was with the adorable blue fairy costume, she said that she didn't like the pointy skirt. So I found lots of pictures of fairy costumes on line and (fortunately!) all of them had pointy skirts. I tried to convince her that that was just a trait of all fairy skirts and she looked really beautiful! So she decided to wear the costume and everything seemed to go well the next day and then last night after they'd already gone to bed late, Emma came downstairs crying and said, "Mom, I just didn't want to wear the blue dress!" and wouldn't stop crying about it until Michael rocked her to sleep.
Fortunately there wasn't nearly as much drama with Spencer and David's costumes. They just looked cute. David really had fun this year. He did a little trick-or-treating and then hung out on the porch with me handing out candy.
Catherine was a specific fairy called "a water sprite"- whose name was Lily. She was very particular about this. She even wrote us a full 2 page description with more details and information about water-sprites in general and Lily, specifically. I made her jacket. I wasn't fully on board with the water-sprite theme until I saw this fabric in the prom-clearance fabric and it looked like something a water-sprite would wear. So here she is. She looked very cute.
By looking at this happy picture, you would never know the drama that surrounded Emma's costume. Our cousin Abby Cannon let us borrow this very cute fairy costume which went so perfectly with the afore-mentioned water-sprite. Well the night before Halloween as we were laying everything out before bed, Emma starts pulling out her different church dresses and asking if she can wear one of them instead. Through all this I was battling internally with deciding whether "it really didn't matter and I should just let her wear whatever she wanted, even if it looked like she had no costume at all" and feelings of "no! My child WILL look cute on Halloween - esp when the costume is all ready to go!" When I finally got her to explain what the problem was with the adorable blue fairy costume, she said that she didn't like the pointy skirt. So I found lots of pictures of fairy costumes on line and (fortunately!) all of them had pointy skirts. I tried to convince her that that was just a trait of all fairy skirts and she looked really beautiful! So she decided to wear the costume and everything seemed to go well the next day and then last night after they'd already gone to bed late, Emma came downstairs crying and said, "Mom, I just didn't want to wear the blue dress!" and wouldn't stop crying about it until Michael rocked her to sleep.
Fortunately there wasn't nearly as much drama with Spencer and David's costumes. They just looked cute. David really had fun this year. He did a little trick-or-treating and then hung out on the porch with me handing out candy.
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