The Pink Shamrocks: The Ariel Costume

M has really embraced her birthday month this year, an with all of the built up anticipation, the next week should be very exciting for her, I hope! She proudly tells everyone he birthday is "October!" and then once prompted, will remember its actually "October thirtieth!" I think she is super confused about her birthday and Halloween being only a day apart, so she assumes that Halloween is obviously a celebration of her birthday.

She has changed her mind numerous times about what she wants to be. Since she is Disney obsessed (those people really know what they are doing!) it started out as Cinderella, then Sophia the First, then Daisy Duck (she loves purple too), then Ariel. I got as far as buying yellow tights for the Daisy costume when she changed her mind, and waiting until just the other day to pull the trigger on the Ariel costume. Go figure the day I bought it she changed her mind and wanted to be Jasmine, but I think we've dodged that one hopefully!

The best part is that she completely thinks the whole thing through in her head. With Daisy, she said R would be Minnie, Daddy would be Goofy, Gable would be Pluto, Mommy would be Clarabelle, Baby Luke would be Mickey, and Papa would be Donald. She even liked to brainstorm who could be some of the lesser known characters like Pete and Cuckoolacka (sp?), and Chip and Dale, and then crack herself up about it. Her little mind is always thinking, and it is just the cutest when we ask her who will be who and she puts her little pointer finger in her chin and says, Hmmmm....I know!

Now that the Ariel decision is final she also has every character laid out. She gets the most amusement from the fact the R is going to be Sebastian, the crab sidekick. We even borrowed a crab costume from Morgan, and M constantly wants R to put it on. I was a little worried when we revealed R's costume about a week ago, before having M's, that she would be a little jealous, but she was absolutely ecstatic. R didn't know what to think about the costume, but the excitement in her sister's eyes was all she needed she was thrilled too.

Now we just have to figure out how Daddy is going to be Price Eric, I will be Ursula, Papa will be King Triton (hilarious) and Gable will be Flounder. I guess we have some more to do :)

We did the big costume reveal last night - Chris was so excited. He loves Halloween and has really been the one for getting M into the spirit. I think he was just as excited as her. Her face and reaction were totally priceless, and I was a super proud Mama when the first think she said was "thank you so much!" - my girl has great manners when it comes to please and thank you. My favorite is when we ask her if she'd like something, and when she doesn't, she says, "no please!" instead of no thank you. But hey, I'll take it! So cute.

And proudly showing off the new costume

And here she is getting ready the next day for her school party.

I know, the nuk HAS to go!!!

And here she is next to Adam at the party. They performed all of their Halloween songs, and she had a huge smile on her face the entire time. I was so surprised by how she knew all the words - she never sings the songs at home! But it was adorable and the teachers clearly have been doing a great job!