Halloween 2007

For the two months before Halloween we asked Syd what she wanted to be. At first, she changed her mind every couple of days, but then about a month before the big day she decided she wanted to be a mummy. We have no idea where the idea came from, but from that day on, no matter what, she wanted to be a mummy. We even took her to one of those Halloween USA stores and told her she could get anything she wanted. She still stuck with a mummy. And, of course, they had no mummy costumes. So I bought some gauze wraps from the dollar store and we created our own mummy costume. I attached the gauze to her sweatpants and sweatshirt rather than wrapping around her body thinking that would be more comfortable and more easily taken on and off (like for going to the bathroom). You can see from the pictures below what we came up with. She wouldn't let me put it over her face so we ended up attaching gauze to her hood that stayed up some of the time. It was really windy that night and she was running a lot so by the time we got home the gauze was almost entirely around her ankles, but oh well, tidiness probably isn't a trait of a good mummy anyway.

The pictures below are of her getting ready and her coming from the first house. By the third house she was fed up and wanted to quit because everyone was giving out chocolate. As most of you know, Syd does not like chocolate. We had to convince her that some house would have something other than chocolate, she just had to keep going. She did, and ended up with a pretty good take, about half chocolate and half non-chocolate. Dad and I helped her with the chocolate stuff.