Moses and Two Tooth Fairies

Last night was Halloween. We were hoping that, since we attended the Fall Festival at school, the girls would not ask to go trick or treating.

Fat chance.

S desperately wanted to be a mermaid. I told her we didn't have the dress up clothes for that so she had to pick something else. I finally talked her into a fairy since the outfit had long sleeves and she could wear her white tights (a big deal before you hit 18). I helped her make a wand out of construction paper, a pencil, and tape. She figured she needed to be a specific kind of fairy and since her bottom tooth has been very wiggly, she decided she was The Tooth Fairy.

K, being the "monkey see, monkey do" variety, decided she was also being The Tooth Fairy. She was really wearing the Cinderella dress but since neither had actually seen a tooth fairy, we figured who would know the difference?

As for me, I borrowed Darren's Moses costume, complete with a beard down to my knees and a hair piece that rivaled Charleton Heston's in "The Ten Commandments". The robe was a little long so the rope belt held up the big blousing over of the top part. My old Birkenstock sandals (so Seattle Grunge '90s) came out of hiding. I knew I held on to them for a reason.

So Moses, Tooth Fairy #1, and Tooth Fairy #2 joined Super Girl (Grace) and Superman (Lance) and Renee around T-town for a night of sugar high. I had to remind them often not to tramp through everyone's landscaping and S would race to the door to be first to yell "TRICK OR TREAT" while K repeatedly lost her Sunday shoes (guess tooth fairies also wear brown Mary Janes from Walmart). My staff was so long I had to hang it out the side window and nearly took out a few mailboxes as the red minivan lumbered from house to house.

Now we are rationing the haul as I already have to peel S and K off the ceiling most days. Plus, their dad and I plan to raid their stash on a regular basis!