For weeks Adara had been saying that she was being a transformer. So, lazy mom that I am, I had established that such a costume existed at the store. Then she returned from out west saying that she would be a fairy as she'd been playing fairy with cousin Jericha. Fine, she'd returned with a new fairy dress and wings, so all good, nothing required of us. On saturday when we had a toddler halloween party, I realized that she'd envisioned a fairy wearing wings and nothing else. Hmm... that wont' work. So, I suggested fairy pirate as obviously pirates must wear pants and boots and hats and things. No problem she loved that. We dressed her in jeans, a shirt, her tall brown boots with the pants tucked in , her pirate hat, fairy wings and fairy wand. All good.
Then on sunday, 5 minutes before trick or treating she announced that she would be a cowboy. What? I don't have anything resembling a cowboy costume except the same brown boots and a neck kerchief. This was no costume that anyone on the street would recognize, she was going to be dissapointed. So looking desperately around the room I yelled "how about a cowboy dragon?" She loved it and so we were off. jeans, jean jacket, neck kerchief, her cowboy hat (because it has a lariat tie), ever popular brown boots (thanks auntie Kristen!) and the dragon tale (thanks Gretel of Fancy Pants Kids). A cowboy/dragon. The neighbours loved it and Halloween was saved for annother year! I shudder to think of what next year might bring!
3 comments:
Cute costume! So original!
Hilarious! I love it.
it wasn't the dragontail and cowboy boots that saved the day, Kendra - it was your willingness to go with the flow and follow the everchanging whims of costume wishes - well done!
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