Dear Kids,
This year you decided for yourselves what you wanted to be for Halloween. Marshall said he wanted to be a Scary Bee. Livia, taking her cue from her brother, declared that she wanted to be a bee, too.
As I was shopping for toddler bee costumes, I found some costumes for adults. It occurred to me that I could dress up, too. What a crazy idea! I hadn’t dressed up for Halloween for decades. I get uncomfortable just thinking about wearing a costume. But that’s not a good thing, and I don’t want you to feel that way when you grow up. I want you to know that you can still have fun when you’re older. It wouldn’t be enough to tell you, though. I have to show you. So I decided to be a bee, too.
When I told your dad that I was going to dress up, he said, “I don’t want to be a bee!” Then he saw that there were beekeeper costumes. Thus the theme was born.
Marshall, I couldn’t find a good costume for you, so I bought you some black-and-yellow striped pajamas. Then I found a bow tie, stinger, and deely bopper set to go with it, plus a pair of wings to strap on your back. And voila! You were a bee. Not a scary bee, perhaps, but a cute one. You were thrilled with your stinger. You kept backing into people to sting them with it. Attaboy!
Livia, you were supposed to be a princess bee. You might not have had a crown, but it was clear that you were a princess. The costume was small on you and the Velcro at the bottom refused to stay closed, but you didn’t mind. Just like last year, you were a Halloween trooper. You let nothing stand between you and your candy. You fell several times, and you kept losing your shoe. None of that fazed you. You were certain of your task and about what you were supposed to be. Every once in a while someone would tell you that you were a pretty butterfly, and you would correct them, saying, “I’m a bee!”
Some people noticed our family bee theme and commented on it, all positively. “I love it when the whole family gets involved,” they told us. And on the way home your dad told me that he had enjoyed our Halloween theme. He said, “It was fun. Thank you for my costume.” That made me happy.
But you two deserve most of the credit. If it weren’t for you, we wouldn’t have dressed up or gone out for Halloween. We wouldn’t have seen the two cutest bees in the world. We wouldn’t have taken pictures, and we wouldn’t have the memories to go along with them. We would have missed out on so much. Thank you!
Love,
The Queen Bee