Holiday Highlights: Part 1- Halloween

It's been a while and so many fun holidays have passed. I've not blogged in a while, so in order to catch up I've decided to share some of the highlights that stand out in my memory. So forgive the flashback but here, for your reading pleasure, is installment 1.

Halloween:
Millie was a bumble bee. She said she wanted to be a witch or a ghost for weeks but then we got to the costume/party store and the clerk pointed out a cute little bumblebee outfit and that was IT. Once that black and yellow tutu was on and she had her antennae firmly in place- it wasn't coming off. She was mesmerized. She gazed at herself in the mirror and was dazzled into a moment of silence... Then she was off- buzzing around the store. Can you tell by the picture how awestruck she is? This is a picture I took in the dressing room. I took the picture because I just had never seen that hypnotized gaze on her before. The blur is the bumble-bee wand she's waving around.



Mommy: Ok, Millie. Time to take it off so we can buy it and take it home.
Millie: Noooooo!
Mommy: C'mon- you can keep it if you take it off. We just have to pay for it.
Millie: Nooooooooo!

I was a bit tired that day and just not ready to pin her down and fight to get it off... so I called her father.

Mommy: Hey we're at the store trying on costumes and she's in love with the bumble bee one.
Daddy: Really? I'd love to see it. I'm on my way home already but I won't be there for 20 minutes.
Mommy: That's ok. She won't let me take it off so we're not going anywhere anytime soon.

And so we hung out until daddy got there. Between her father and myself, we finally were able to convince her to take it off... but not without a few tears.

Millie: (sob) Mommy wants to take my dress away from me. It's so pretteeee.
Daddy: (On the way home) Maybe we ought to get her a couple dresses.
Mommy: Y'think?

Trick or Treating was fun. We went to a house of some friends who have a 12 yr old son who was excited about showing Millie the ropes.

Friend: First we'll go down street A, then we'll turn up street B because there are lots of houses on that street then we'll cut down street C and back around to our house.
Mommy and daddy: Uh..... Millie may not make it to the end of your block but we'll see.

She liked getting candy but she did not like spooky decorations hanging from garage doors or fog machines. Still too much for her imagination. One of the houses had music playing out front and all kinds of major scenes played out on their lawn. She did not like it though-- from now on "Hot Hot Hot" will always be known as the song of "The steamy scary house".

She also didn't quite understand why we were ringing doorbells and not going into people's homes. Nearly every home she went to she strolled into their living room or foyer after the door was opened. She met some dogs and someone's pet gecko in their living room. The gecko was cool. One neighbor asked her if she stung people. She said, "No. I just buzz." After the 4th house, she took a seat on their couch.

Mommy and Daddy: Millie do you want to go home to your house now?
Millie: Yes. (Then, later, in the car on the way home) Can I go home to my hive now? The bumble bee is ti-ud.