Well, Kate has been looking forward to this day for weeks. She has kept her own private countdown. Every day she would get up, eat her breakfast and then tell me, "Hey, mom 14 days until Halloween." We knew that we had to address this issue, and address it really soon. We had intended to go to our church's party on Saturday, but then I got called into work, so we made a quick change of plans and when Kate got home from school today, we got all dressed up and headed for the George Bush Museum.
Kate wanted to be a princess, of course, so I ironed her Cinderella dress, attached jingle bells to her socks and gave her some rings to put on her fingers. She took Reagan's pink-cock-horse. Reagan had no idea what to expect. She just thought it was cool that she got to dress up like a kitty cat. You should have seen her with the little ears on her head and whiskers on her nose. She found a mirror and positively preened. I pinned a little lost mitten to the back of Georgie's costume which was a pumpkin for Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater.
We ended up at the museum pretty early, but by the time we had left, I was so glad that we had come early. The line into the museum stretched out all the way to the auxillary parking lot. We were second in line. The girls' costumes were an instant hit. It helped that Reagan played kitty and catterwauled to anyone that passed by. George was just cute.
I was glad that we decided to do this costume party. We got to go to the museum for free and as we toured the exhibits there were attendants with candy. I told Kate to go and ask one of them for a piece of candy. She frowned at me, but Reagan heard me, so she went up to one of them, held out her hand and said, "Candy, please." Imagine her surprise when they gave her a chocolate bar. After that, there was no stopping those girls. They were delightfully bewildered at the fact that all these people wanted to give them candy. The attendants thought it was cute that they kept saying, "Can I have some candy, please."
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