Halloween Preview

Becky has been extremely busy sewing costumes for herself and me and a new dress for Ally.

Its a dinosaur dress for Ally! Becky and I really like to shop for fabric, but Ally does not. About 2 months ago when we were visiting my parents Becky and I went out by ourselves and of course Ally wanted to come. So we told her we were going fabric shopping and she could stay and watch the Dinosaur Train movie with Grandma Barbie. We asked if she wanted anything and she said a "dinosaur dress" we scoured the store and found the green fabric above with dinosaurs on it. Ally was a bit bummed that it did not have Velociraptors on it but the yellow fabric has dragonflies on it so I think that helped.

Side view of Becky's costume. She is a stegasaurus.

Ally immediately asked to put on her costume to play with mama.

Ally is a Buddy the T-Rex. She loves to roar in her costume, and one of the best things to her is that a T-Rex is a carnivore and the stegasaurus, and the corythasaurus (what I will be) are herbivores. So that means she can pretend to eat us!

They had so much fun playing until Ally's nose got bonked and she got a bloody nose. Becky and I managed to extracate Ally from her costume and her special dress without getting any blood on them. Phew. But a bloody nose is so traumatic for Ally - she screams and shakes and hates it so much. She told us "bloody noses is so scary...I don't like to get a bloody nose". It was rough for a while.

She got another one the next day, and it was just as traumatic. But since then she has been fine. We've talked a lot about how they happen and what we can do to prevent them (humidifier at night, vaseline on your nostrils, gentle nose blowing etc). But Ally was still so spooked about getting another one that she begged Becky to write her teacher on Monday morning to let her know that if Ally got another one at school she would need help. She did not, and it seems for now that her nose is back to normal.

And not to be missed is my costume. You get bonus points if you know what kind of dinosaur I am:

These were taken at our HUGE Monster Halloween Bash this morning. We had 60 people there and it was a lot of fun. I'll get more pictures and the story of that posted soon.