halloween recap

For Halloween, we headed up to Philadelphia to celebrate Maggie's 4th Birthday with Queen Mommy and the Four Princesses. It was a whirlwind trip -- we headed up on Saturday morning and were there for about 24 hours. But much fun was had by all -- a birthday party, Trick-or-Treating AND a sleepover all in one!

Trick-or-treating was cut short due to the rain, but the girls managed quite a haul, inlcuding the Holy Grail of T-or-T-ing: Full-Sized Candy Bars. Oddly enough, the highlight of the evening was handing out candy to everyone else. Maura and E set up stools in the front hall and watched for Trick-or-treaters for an hour. It was too cute!

 

So, the homemade kitty ears were a gigantic FAIL on my part. It was a felt and glue disaster, but I could not get the ears to attach to the curved headbands. My mother-in-law suggested a hot glue gun...but after looking at how much cold, non-scalding glue was all over my hands, I decided against that. So I went to Wal-mart (thanks for the tip, Pigtails to Pacifiers!) and bought some. In a small victory, they both wore the tails I had "made", and E did end up wearing my homemade collar (Cat name: Princess) while A (Cat name: Tinkerbell) opted for the cheesey bow-tie. Yes, I understand that I went from homemade to the retail devil...and how I failed to make quite possibly the world's easiest Halloween costume, but oh well. Better luck next year.