Kelso Kids: The grumpiest bunny fairy butterfly, ever ~ October 31st, 2013

Most kids look forward to Halloween. Maybe it's because they understand they'll get candy, maybe that they get to make some trouble, or they look forward to scaring people. Nora doesn't eat candy yet and doesn't quite understand why people are in costume so to her it's just another day.

Nora decided that she didn't want to wear any of the suggested costumes and even refused to wear clothes for a big chunk of the day. Then refused to eat lunch or nap. It was a banner day.

But we soldiered on and managed to get her to agree to wear clothes and she even consented to being creative with her choices hence the bunny coat, fairy dress, and butterfly wings. What really got her out the door was the promise of going to Kennedy School and eating pizza. Daddy was looking forward to having a beer. Mom was thankful that dad was finally home.

Unicorn executive...long story.

I was a penguin.

She's obsessed with cameras. Even pretends without one.

Mom, stop taking pictures. Chip-chop-chippy.

We had to use the promise of pizza to get her out of the house. It apparently wasn't quite up to snuff.
Then we ran into some friends, did some trick-or-treating, and ran around on the front lawn. It was all better until we needed to walk home and then she melted down. "Up, up, dada!" She collapsed against Jamie and went to bed at 5:30pm. She didn't miss much, no trick-or-treaters at our door this year. I was bummed. Maybe next year!