This year's Halloween was pretty mellow, but I did prepare a costume (all out of stuff we had around the house ..yay!) for T. I took hint at how much she loves dancing to ballet that she sees on YouTube, and using the fab hat Toni knitted for Tesla last year as a basis for color, I basically made a fancy fluffy tutu-ish skirt. She loved wearing it, and grinned whenever I got her in it.
We had a few iterations, first being at the pumpkin patch. I then added more layers, and made her a shirt (onesie with pink fluff glued to it). She wore the tutu to gym one day before Halloween. Last pic here is Halloween day, when I got her dressed. She clapped!
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We were supposed to go to Six Apart's family Halloween day (which I was looking forward to), but Tesla woke up with coughs and general grumpiness. So she stayed home all day, and had a late nap 'til 5pm, totally missing the party. I knew she'd enjoy her outfit with other kids, so we did rally to dress and go to 18th street, our neighborhood where all the stores and neighbors open up, and the community comes out for trick or treating.
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I usually wear something not very scary on Halloween, but this year, I ventured out and bought a $5 kit from the drugstore with gory eye make-up, fake glitter blood, and fangs. The fangs chipped off quickly, but with Tesla being my focus, I didn't really care. However, I'm inspired next year to do a gory costume for the very first time in my life. You know, the typical scary stuff...never thought of doing so before, but now I'm intrigued...
We made Tesla try trick or treating, but she lost interest before getting anything because there were witches inside the store.
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After 18th street, we stopped by Noe Valley where Tesla's great-granny lives, and her granny, aunties, and cousins were. Great-granny played piano, and it was the cutest show when Tesla and her cousin (dressed as TinkerBell) danced around. I just sat marveling at the generations in that room!
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