Diary of a super tired super mom: Halloween is done.. at least we went out with a bang!

Halloween... Hands down my favorite holiday of the year... Unlike every other holiday, Halloween is unchanged in tradition and ever changing in detail. I love it so much because I don't have to buy gifts for people, worry about people getting gifts for me, you can scare people and they can't really get mad about since it's the way of the season, getting to dress up and decorate, fun creepy parties and of course.. CANDY! I spent months getting ready to host a costume party a week before Halloween. It was a good turn out with some great costumes even though HALF of the people invited didn't bother to show. I was bummed but realized that the people who DID show up made the party great. Then the week went by and it was time to get ready for trick or treating. I have three children. Three daughters... They are ten, seven and almost eleven months old. My two older daughters have had their costumes for a few weeks. Both of them wanted to be scary so they were mad murderous Alice and a bloody faced vampire. Both were made up with dark eye makeup and B L O O D... Then it was down to the baby... This was after all, her very first Halloween... It had to be good and memorable. I looked online all through September... EVERYTHING I found was all cutesy and exaggerated.. Baby elephant... baby unicorn... baby garden gnome? Yeah... NO THANKS! Aside from being pricey for a one nights use and only a foot and a half of material, MY baby doesn't really like having hats and things on her head unless it's a bow that I slip in quickly.. So that fact made it even harder to buy a cutesy little costume.. To spend $45 so my daughter could spend her first Halloween as a headless unicorn... NOPE! Not interested. So then I started thinking of "scary" baby costumes.. There are a few creative people out there who have made some spooky little costumes work for their kids.. I saw Jack Skellington, Edward Scissorhands, even cute little Chucky dolls... I already have people saying "Awe, what a cute little boy" just because she sometimes wears blue. They somehow miss her pierced ears, pink doll and pink shoes... But anyway.. I didn't want to deliberately set her up as a boy.. even on Halloween! So then I got to thinking... What can I make that's creepy, adorable, creative and still show she's a girl.... Then I got it! An awesome idea inspired by one of my favorite shows... The reactions were amazing! We didn't go by anyone without pulling their eyes, getting ooo's and ahhh's.. among other things like "sweet!", "That's awesome!" and so on.. I have to admit that I ate it up. I didn't need candy that night because my ego monster was full enough for the both of us! :) All three of my girls looked great but the baby was a HIT! She put all those cutesy kids to shame and was full of smiles for all the people admiring her and her costume. It was a great! It's sad that the spooky season is over and before we know it, Christmas will be here... I'm glad that we went out with a bang. :) Until next year.. I hope you all had a fun, freaky, scary, great and safe Halloween! Check out my youngest daughters very first Halloween costume... ;)