Harvest Time

It's almost Halloween. We don't really celebrate Halloween, we call it Harvest Festival. Our church and even Steffi's school calls it Harvest Festival. Steffi's daddy's school calls it Harvest Festival now too. You have to be in 'friendly' costumes and at church it's a safe place to get candy, and play games.

Steffi still dresses up, and she is still young enough for me to try and steer her towards a costume that I want her to have. I like to start conversations early regarding this topic for two reason. One, so that I have time to make or assemble her costume, and two, she changes her mind A LOT!

She started out wanting to be Guido...no not, some kind of lounge singer...but Guido from the Disney Cars movie. The little fork lift that puts the tires on. We tried to tell her that no one would know who she was. We told her of how when she was Dora for Halloween one time, everyone kept asking why she wasn't dressed up and we had to explain that she was actually Dora. This went on for a few weeks...her wanting to be Guido. After hearing so many times that no one would know who she is, she came back and told me, "it's okay mom, I will carry around my Cars DVD and tell everyone I came out of this movie!" Too funny. But we still tried to change her mind...also because we weren't sure how we were going to make Guido!

Then I remembered the Snow White dress she has...the one that she wore at her birthday party, the one that she had to wear to her 'best friend's' knight/princess party at school (and then put a hole in it by trying to ride a tricycle with it on!)...yeah, that one...let me see if I can sell her on Snow White.

Conversation goes like this..

Me: Steffi, how about Snow White for Halloween!
S: Well, no, I want to be Guido.
Me: No one will know Guido. This way you can wear your dress and everyone will know who you are.
S: No, I want to be Guido.
Me: Okay... :(

A few days later...

S: Mom, where is my Snow White dress...I'm going to be Snow White for Halloween!
Me: Okay, let's try it on! Yea!

Thank goodness it still fits and she now is telling everyone she is going to be Snow White. Hopefully that will stick for the next few weeks until we are in the clear....

But then it opened a whole other bucket of worms regarding her birthday....but that's for another time.

A Place To Ramble

I've been wanting to try this blogging thing for a while. So many times Steffi comes up with so many funny things that I want to document them and remember them. Why a blog? Well, hopefully to keep in touch with family and friends about the happenings of Steffi and to make someone smile at some point.