Finally

IT HAS HAPPENED. FINALLY.

For the entirety of Mila's life, Alexis has considered her little sister to be a convenient accessory when it comes time to pick Halloween costumes. Alexis is always in charge of what they will wear. Though there have been a few years when it has almost been a mutually agreed upon thing, mostly Mila has been whatever Alexis has told her to be.

She was once a guitar so Alexis could be Elvis. Another year she was a Taco so they could be Taco Belle. Eventually I will dig up the photos of their ongoing costume saga, but stick with the point here. Alexis tells Mila what to be and Mila just goes with it.

NOT THIS YEAR.

They have been talking about costumes for easily two months already. Neither one of them knows how to keep their holidays neatly tucked into the proper month (Hello, I rearranged my office today so I could have space for a Christmas tree in 27 days, so don't get the impression that I'm judging the girls. Mostly I'm proud.). That means there have been 40 iterations and another 50 ideas ranging from something Harry Potter (Mila wanted to be Hedwig at one point, but to that NOOOOOO because that sounds like a costume I have to make and Momma ain't got time for that this year) to something Superhero. Every idea they - and I use that term loosely because mostly it was Alexis - had was either real close to something they've done before or an idea that has been beaten into the ground by the rest of the world.

And Mila was demonstrating very little willingness to be her sister's accessory. She nixed several ideas because she correctly noted that Alexis' half of the costume was the cool half of the costume.

And then came a tiny little idea last night. It was 100% Mila's idea, all the way down to who would be which part of it, and ALEXIS AGREED.

The costumes are ordered. There's no backing out now.

Details to come when Halloween actually shows up, but let's just say Mila is a little genius. Because she is.

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[Mary]

Squeee...I can hardly wait!!!