Madeleine had a lot of wavering on her costume idea. Back in the summer, she had asked for a mermaid costume, but upon googling various mermaid tails, she instead fell in love with the actual wearable swimming tail with monofin. Next thing I knew, she was forking over a bunch of her savings to get that tail to wear to the pool, and no actual costume was bought.
Since we have a slew of dress-up items and leftover costumes from Julia, Madeleine figured she'd be able to put something together easily. She semi-settled on being Ginny Weasley, but as Halloween drew near, she resurrected her dream of being a mermaid. I didn't have to buy a new costume, however, because she had LOTS of creative ways to make this work:
-She was just going to take tiny baby steps with her legs inside the fin of her swimmable mermaid tail
-She was going to make her OWN mermaid tail out of cardboard
-She was going to wear her swimmable mermaid tail but stick her legs through the holes through which the monofin is inserted
-She was going to wear her mermaid knee socks and Julia's mermaid-patterned skirt
The lattermost option was the one she finally seemed most settled on, except that I wasn't digging it since it kind of looked like she was just wearing clothes:
MADELEINE: Well, I'll ADMIT that it doesn't really look like a costume, but...let's think of ways we can IMPROVE it.
This was Monday. She had two days to come up with something.
Instead, she just got lazy and thankfully switched back to Ginny Weasley. So tonight Julia the Sorceress and Ginny Weasley got ready for a neighborhood Halloween party, followed by trick-or-treating with friends!:
At the neighborhood party, Madeleine saw two boys from her class, who were dressed in costumes similar to this:
MADELEINE: (to one of the boys, as he passed by her) Are you a criminal?
Uh...in a way...
Anyway, Madeleine and one of her best friends went trick-or-treating with Ethan and I, and Julia and three of her friends got to go off on their own through the neighborhood. Everybody gathered back at our house to trade candies and check out their loot, and at long last it is time for all the Rowes to retire for the evening. Halloween 2018: Check!
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