This year's costumes were not settled until the whiff of chocolate hit the air at 5:15 PM on Halloween evening. Originally, Boudreaux had been planning to be a pretty pink princess...thus, the lovely Walgreen's $7.99 blond wig that I bought. However, once he was in the dress and the wig and I was threatening him with lipstick, he backed out. Hence, we now have a very fine $7.99 Walgreen's hair band rock out wig. I have pictures of Bumpus in the wig, but if I put them on the blog he will get bad bad revenge, and we can't go having that.
So Boudreaux morphed from a princess into a bespectacled Star Wars sith with a do rag and some sort of plastic bugs/skeletons/boogers hanging out of the mask's airholes. Rufus went back to his mutant Star Wars character approach, too--the same approach used before a costume party last weekend...plus some menacing "come here and getcha some" faces.
That left Magoo, who has over the past two weeks become extremely opinionated about her clothes. Like Sarah Palin's handlers, she has both high fa-loot-in taste and a complete disrespect for anything made out of synthetic material. She, like her Mama, is a cotton snob. We shun acrylic, nylon, spandex, and all that other crap as often as possible. So Magoo, being the last and the girl, had three costume choices: (1) a lovely black witch dress and hat purchased off the sale rack at Target ($6.69), (2) an equally lovely pink layered princess dress purchased at Walgreens ($9.99) with a boa, crown, and any other ah-coo-tray-ments she desired. I was even willing to let her wear the aligator hat with it. Choice #3 was the Mama-made Princess Leigha hair/hat and cloak from last year. Despite being in her current "pink phase" and despite loving witches, Magoo went for ye old standby, which was good with me because last year she wouldn't leave the hair on. This year we threatened her with "if you don't have your hair on, they won't give you any chocolate when you go to the door." The be-jeweled "tap taps" (flip flops) and maroon/white binky were the bling on top.
May the farce be with you.
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