Greene Family Blog: THE Halloween Costume

Okay for those of you still with me, forgive me it has been awhile since my last post.

I shall give you some insight into my crazy, crazy mind. Sit back relax and laugh.

I have known for sometime what Anora's Halloween costume would be. I had it picked out in early August.

So I purchased a cute little treat bag to coordinate with her costume.

Then I had these shoes special made on Etsy to match her costume.

Now drum roll please...............

THE costume.

Isn't it just magnificent. I mean really could it be any stinking cuter? Okay so I put off buying the actual costume until October the 1st when technically they went on sale. Previous to that you could only pre-order. Well I got my first taste of being a parent and not realizing that you have picked the most popular item on the planet for your kid. October 1st came and everyone, and I mean everyone everywhere was sold out. Only a few places were still even taking pre-orders "just in case" they got another shipment. No guarantee. My heart sank. I just knew how adorable she would be in this costume and I suddenly felt like I had failed her. Now I know she has no idea about Halloween or what it means she is only 21 months old for cripes sake, but that didn't matter. I was set on seeing her in this costume and having everyone else see her in this costume.

So as I said I put in an order for a backorder paying just as much in shipping as I did for the costume itself, just to give myself more time for the costume to come in and get her in time. I crossed my fingers and prayed.

In the meantime I went out and got her another costume that I am not at all that pleased with. It is some fairy costume, but I bought it on the off chance that if THE costume came through then this could be used for dress up throughout the year.. I had to do something, I mean she could not NOT get dressed up and go trick or treating right??? Then of course I had to buy a coordinating treat bag. I couldn't very well use the one I already had. It has paw prints, Hello paw prints and fairies DO NOT mix. Then I had to buy coordinating shoes. Did you see the poodle on the high top tennis shoes people... High top tennis shoes don't go with a fairy costume either. Not too mention if i put her in that hodge podge outfit I felt like someone might figure out my dirty little secret. I felt it SCREAMED "I screwed up and am not a perfect Mom".

As most of you know I finally got the costume this week on October the 26th. The day it arrived I opened it in front of Anora and as soon as the box was open she gasped and said "CU" which is how she says cute. It was the moment I dreamed of. I took it out of the box and handed it to her still on the hangar. She turned and showed it to Grandma and said "cu, cu". I am still beaming; she loves it as much as I do. Then I take her to the bathroom and stand her in front of the mirror so I can put the hat on her. She is so excited and keeps saying "cu, cu, cu, cu over and over again. I stopped myself there because I wanted to wait for Daddy before I tried the rest of it on. I didn't want him to miss any more of this. So I went back to work dreaming about the 2 of us coming home to share this magical moment when we put her costume on and she runs around the house all happy and we hug and beam at our "fricking adorable" baby. Well for anyone who has had kids knows they run hot and cold. So for the entire night I keep asking her to put it on and she says "uh uh", she is cranky and I fear that if I struggle with her to put it on now that she will not want to wear it on Halloween so I back off....a little anyway. I asked her the next night for about an hour and then let it go.

Well when I was home today for lunch she was in a great mood so I tried and she let me put it on. She was excited and happy to see it on. She wanted to put it on in front of the mirror so that she could see. I had to take pictures and video since Daddy wasn't there. Sorry Daddy I couldn't pass up the oppurtunity. I hope you forgive me >