Any excuse for another party

We were invited for a Halloween party by an Indigo (that is Sera's home room) mom. Hey, any excuse for a good party ... count us in. ha ha. I was resigned to letting Sera wear her mermaid dress, yah, here I go again. This so very unimaginative mother of hers. But at the last minute I found this strange looking hair band at Claire's, that had bat purple sequinned bat wings and ears! I had no idea what I was going to do with it but I bought it purely on impulse. I'd figure something out.

So 1.5 hours before the party (I always work best under pressure, or so it seems) I remembered she had a pair of black leggings (did they still fit?), her patent boots (a gift from Sigi but do they still fit?) and I needed a black long sleeved top. Hmm, a grey one would have to do. I was a bit wary that she'd just HATE the costume because all around her, the girls at school wanted to be princesses and it had rubbed off along the way. But she loved the costume and was soooo thrilled with her wings that grew from her head and not her back. ha ha ha. Johan, being Mr hardly-out-of-the-box, asked me to cut the wings and stick it on her back. "It's just crazy that the wings are on her head!"

I thought it was hilarious and in the end, Sera loved it so nothing else mattered. She didn't even flinch when I used my black eye liner and eye shadow to create some sort of mask like thing on her face. She was very keen to be Bat Girl. And of course, Johan just had to comment, "But there is no Bat girl, only Cat girl!"

And all together ... we roll our eyes to the blue skies! 'wink'

I dressed Yasmin in Sera's eeyore outfit, which was a gift when she was born. It still fits and that mouse ear had to do because the eeyore head piece was annoying her. Check out the attempting to be fierce Bat girl.

You'd think those mouse ears were really a part of his head!

Sera and Sophia singing a medley of songs to get their treats

Getting treats the easy way ...

The kids were sooo picky ... they were studiously picking up their favourite sweets and throwing back the 'undesirable' ones!!!

The dessert spread was ridiculously sinful (and this is only half of the table!)