Mila Figured It Out

I'm neither here nor there with this whole "Halloween all week" thing, but Mila is very much so all in. There are costumes happening for all sorts of different things pretty much every day for a solid week. Because she has to be the opposite of her sister in every way, though, Mila she had to find a way to twist the whole thing around. While Alexis very much so wanted an official fancy costume for each and every event, Mila is SUPER happy to scrape through piles of fabric and patch together something.

Sunday's cheer costume involved an old witch hat, a skirt Mila made out of felt and a safety pin, and a random cape she found hidden in a bin somewhere. She was very proud of it. Alexis would have rather had a toe nail ripped out by ants carrying tiny sporks than wear a felt skirt. Which, for what it's worth, is why there is an actual witch costume in the house somewhere. Mila didn't want it. She preferred her cobbled together idea.

For gymnastics, Mila decided to be a vampire. Once again she rummaged through piles of things and assembled a rather perfect rendition. There was a cape, a black t-shirt, a black skirt, fangs, and she talked her sister into giving her fancy vampire makeup. It was pretty perfect.

And it led to a realization.

As I went to drop Mila off, she put on a mask, as usual. She cocked her head for a second because GAH! NOBODY COULD SEE HER TEETH! Mila didn't consider it the end of the world because she's a normal 7-year old who wears a mask without complaining, but she definitely took note of the fact that her plastic teeth would go unappreciated.

She still wore them, by the way. The stupid plastic teeth are one of her favorite things.

On our way back home, Mila had a little time to ponder her day and all of its events. I suppose that's what led her to a simple realization. "If I can wear vampire teeth and nobody knows because of my mask, that means REAL vampires can walk around with us and none of us know!"

That's probably how this whole thing started. Vampires wanted to walk among us.