This is unfortunately the only happy picture of Olivia wearing her original Halloween costume. Despite how much she loves Star Wars and how much time her and Niki spend doing light saber fights with night lights, she absolutely hated the Jedi costume Kelly slaved over. The cape that went with this tunic was really awesome but she didn't want anything to do with it. And yes, she put a pair of socks on her hands as gloves.
Olivia's best friend Ava came over for lunch today. Marie had bought the two of them hula outfits awhile back and Ava had brought hers along because she had planned to use it as her costume. Seeing the hula outfit on Ava, Olivia immediately wanted to wear hers.
Doing a dance
Olivia enjoying a caramel apple
Seeing that the hula costume made Olivia happy, rather than cry like the Jedi one, we gave her a choice between the two costumes for what she would wear out trick or treating. She couldn't have reached for the hula outfit faster. So, we threw on her a sweatshirt, the grass skirt, a couple of flowers, and left the house. I guess the lesson is that we should always have a back up costume. 
Olivia started off trick or treating with a lot of enthusiasm between houses but would get very shy and insist on being carried as we got close to the doors. Toward the end of our loop she did break out of her shyness though and was brave enough to walk right up to the doors and get candy on her own. It probably did help that so many of the houses were of friends that knew her well. A couple of houses even had presents specifically set aside for her.
"smiling"
And on one of the last houses, Olivia got an up close encounter with a very large reptile (yes that is Kelly holding the snake). 
Happy Halloween
