No Tricks...All Treat

As Halloween approached this year, Marie was periodically asked what she was going to dress up as. Her response was always immediate...a cow. Jon and I were both confused as to where in the world she came up with the idea. Needless to say, we didn't have a cow costume hiding in a closet somewhere. At first we thought she'd just forget about it or choose something else the next time asked. No such luck.

The closest (and easiest) thing we could come up with was a cowboy outfit. We made the transition last week by getting a book from the library, "I Want to be a Cowboy" and also by watching Toy Story 2. Thankfully it worked. By Friday, Marie was just as excited about being Jessie (a cowgirl) as she had been about being a cow. Whew.

By the way, she also told people more than once that Joey was going to dress up as a lion. I happened upon a tiger suit at a Mom-2-Mom sale, so that wasn't too much of a stretch.


On Saturday, we loaded up the kids and went to Northville. Our good friends the Roberts' and their girls (Rosie - 3; Lilly - 2) live near there and the city was having activities in the afternoon for younger kids prior to their annual Halloween extravaganza. Marie was tentative at first, but then realized that all she had to do was look cute and people would put candy into her bag! Later on, she and I were both a little overwhelmed by the sheer number of people out trick-or-treating. Northville really goes all out!


We didn't stay too long...the girls' feet got tired after visiting just a small portion of the Halloween stops. We decided to go out for a yummy dinner before heading home with one tired cowgirl and a snoozing tiger. Unfortunately, we weren't home to hand out candy ourselves and now we have LOTS around the house. Jon's going to end up with treats in his lunch for a long while...