Halloween Retrospective

I think it's time we come to terms with the fact that I'm terrible at remembering to take photos on Halloween. It's true. I manage to get a few of the girls in their costumes together, but that's it. I guess that's enough? It's certainly WAY less than it seems other people take, but whatever. At least I manage to capture the history that is these two.

This year it was Mila who chose their costumes and let me tell you, that child took immense joy in dressing her sister. She gleefully picked out every detail from the Hawaiian dress to the green leis to the socks (which had Stitch on them) and even the shoes. It made her all of the happy to be in charge, which is interesting because if I had been in charge, I would have gone more all in. I mean, there is an inflatable Stitch costume on Amazon. It's pretty spectacular. Alas, Mila picked the more practical "pajama" version and she wore it herself. She could have been Lilo and left Alexis to be inflatable Stitch, but what she decided on works as well.

I mean, Mila -is- Stitch. It makes sense.

Overall, Halloween was weird this year. Our township moved trick-or-treating to Saturday, which made it just in time for a solid two hours of drizzle and cold. Even if the weather is decent, I will NEVER like Halloween celebrated not on Halloween because it definitely throws off the vibe. This time, it seemed about 1/3 of the houses that usually give out candy in our neighborhood didn't. Whether that was because of the altered times, the crappy whether, or because they're just jerks, I don't know. Regardless, it didn't have the same neighborhood block party vibe that it did a few years ago. Mila was still fine because Halloween is basically her Olympics, so whatever. It was a good time.

Which, every year is a good time with these two partnering up.

Yeah, this partnering up for costumes thing is pretty great.