I get so excited for big events with my kids, and then I get so stressed out when they're actually here. Something about getting 3 little ones in a costume this year put me over the edge. This is how we looked just minutes before we walked out the door to bring cheer to our neighbors.
But then things got better, and I remembered why this is FUN. First, Aunt YaYa came to see the kids in their costumes. That's always a fun treat, although I think I might have scared her away from ever having children after she witnessed our chaos. Then we went to visit our sweet neighbors from Pakistan, who were literally in their driveway waiting for us, worried that we would forget to come. Oh, they are so sweet. They loaded our kids with treats and kept hugging us. They brought out candy dolls for the girls and a truck for Little Buddy. She kept saying, "I thought you weren't coming. Maybe I loved on your kids too much and you were upset." What?!? Seriously, it was a challenge for us just to get out the door. I could tell this was important to them, though, and we wouldn't have missed it--even though it meant being an hour and a half late for our party at church.
By the time we got to the party at church, everyone was in much better spirits. Little Sissy was trying to eat her candy through the Zip-loc bag that neighbor Jabeen gave us (in our rush to get out the door we forgot to bring anything to actually put the candy in). She had already ditched her Minnie Mouse gloves and ears, but at least she was content. The two little bears were very warm and cozy in their furry attire, and we were on our way. The church party was fun. The girls got tickets that they used to play games and win more candy to suck on through a zip-loc bag. Little Buddy pretty much stayed at the baby pool and chewed on rubber ducks all night. Here are some pictures of our non-evil, non-scary candy harvesters as promised. Little Buddy had 2 costumes. The pumpkin we borrowed. I took his picture in it because it was so cute, but it was really too small. He would have been a bear by the end of the night anyway, so we just switched to the happy bear costume.
2 comments:
Awww. They all look so cute. I remember those days. D always had to be as comfortable in her costume as she was in her jammies, and that just NEVER happened!
Trust me, you couldn't scare me away...from your family OR from having kids. It just comes with the territory! That's real life, right? I was just glad I had the opportunity to come. They were so adorable I wouldn't have missed it!
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