The early years ... continued

This is another picture from years ago. This was the one and only time (when Ashley was lets say ... grade school age) that she didn't go out as some sort of princess. It was a Power Ranger year. The girls loved Power Rangers (probably still do). Power Rangers and Captain Planet were the tv shows of choice. Ashley's favorite power ranger was the pink one, Kayla's the yellow one. Unfortunately, we couldn't find a yellow costume ... so red had to do.


Now I don't have any pictures for this next story ... But around this same time frame. (when the girls were little .. little) Kayla went out as a witch, and Ashley as ... you guessed it a princess. Kayla was a cute witch, not a scary witch, since I don't like scary Halloween stuff .. just cutesy Halloween stuff. But anyway, back to the story ... Kayla was a cutesy witch with the long dress, hat, standard witch outfit and a spider ring. This is one of those cheap black rings you can get for like a penny at a thousand stores. So were out trick or treating .. and every few minutes Kayla would just scream and jump. omg .. the first couple of times it scared me to death, not realizing what was happening. She would forget she had on a spider ring, look at her hand .. see the ring .. thinking it was a huge spider on her .. and scream. So I would calmly explain to her, it was a ring .. not a real spider and she would be fine, and laugh and all's well with the world again. That would be for about another 2 minutes ... until it happened all over again. So after about the third time ... I just took the ring for good. It was this same year Ashley (the princess) was really developing her own self worth. We went up to a house where the people weren't home and just left a big bowl of candy on the porch. (keep in mind this was the olden days, when you could do stuff like that and it wouldn't disappear to the first kid that showed up) The girls walked up to the porch and read the sign with the candy.

Please take one piece of candy, and have a happy Halloween.
p.s. If your costume is really nice ... you can take 2 !!

I didn't go all the way up to the porch then, (they were getting older and I stopped where the front walk breaks from the drive .. lol) Kayla gets her candy and comes back. I'm watching Ashley and shes just looking over her costume ... the front, the sides, the back (in the reflection of the storm door) and really pondering what to do. By this time, I've walked all the way to the door to see what the problem is, because she is just taking forever. I read the sign and assured her that her costume is really nice .. so she could definitely take 2 pieces of candy. She takes the 2 pieces of candy and we start back down the walkway, she stops and runs back to the porch and takes a third piece. When she gets back to me she says ... "I have the nicest costume, and I'm the prettiest princess .. so I should get 3"
Oh sweet, adorable little Ashley. lol