I can’t believe I’m even typing this, but… we’re kind of on the ball this year with Halloween! Now that the girls are back in school full-time, I’m channeling my inner Marvel Black Widow, attacking my to do list with swift roundhouses and lethal jabs… and that includes costumes. Getting stuff done never felt so good!
Yep, our girls’ trick-or-treating ensembles are coming together, with new components arriving on the stoop almost every day. Miss L wanted to be “a grandma,” complete with little gold glasses and a white wig, to match her friend across the street, who will be “a grandpa.” Miss L has been bringing her cane prop to the dinner table and on car rides and even tucked it under the covers with her last night. She looks more like Little Bo Peep than a Golden Girl, but she’s in deep method mode, and I’m not going to be the one to break her concentration.
Miss C will be Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket’s "A Series of Unfortunate Events,” in all her big sis Victorian Goth glory, garb and charm. I actually would like an adult-sized version of her entire costume, from the Peter Pan collared floral A-line dress to her cozy fuzzy cardigan. Even the black wig with bangs is pretty stinking cute.
And what about Miss E? What does she want to be? We sat down to peruse our options…
I’ve enjoyed sharing her single-elimination costume tournament in the past and thought you might like to join us again this year! It also gives me a chance to share how Miss E uses alternative communication and images to make choices, which is fun!
First, I modeled the activity in her PODD book:
I have something to say
Let’s do something
It’s happening now
Clothes
Your, Clothes
Categories, Special Events
Special Events, Turn the Page
Halloween
Then it was time to survey the options!
We’ve had great success with Target’s costumes in the past. Their pictures are so vivid and clear on the screen, which makes it easy for me to create boom-card style screen grabs. So this year, we went straight for the red bullseye. (PS, I’m super excited to share that Target is carrying my debut book DANCING WITH DADDY, for pre-order! That’s worthy of a Halloween shriek - Eeeek!)
Well, I can tell you this. After checking out the options, Miss E was not interested in any of the princesses. The past two years were much the same, as she chose more whimsical and book-based characters, such as Pinkalicious and Cindy Lou Who. She weighs in on her 2021 choices in this vid…
So what made the line up this year? Unfortunately that cute Monster costume she liked wasn’t in her size. So Miss E picked an alternate, resulting in these six spunky favorites:
Group A: The Grim Reaper, Dalmation Girl, and Gogo Dancer…
Group B: Bat Girl, Mermaid, and Werewolf
Then, from those six, she narrowed her choices to two:
Dalmation Girl and Mermaid
What did Miss E choose?
You might notice that both of her finalists are found in beloved stories, again! (101 Dalmations and The Little Mermaid, respectively.)
She ultimately dove into this shiny, swishy ensemble…
Luckily the weather stayed nice for a while - we didn’t have to bundle until the sun went down. She gripped a Twix bar most of the night - which was really exciting, because sustained grasp is something that we’ve been working on for a long time! That’ll be the first thing we taste, after trick-or-treating.
Hope you had a Happy Halloween and enjoyed seeing all costumes! So much work, right? But so stinking cute.
