Halloween has come and gone. What a difference a year makes.
For the past several years, our daughter dressed up as a kind of cat: a tiger, an American short hair, etc. It was fairly easy. Face paint? Sure. But it was pretty low maintenance.
This year, she only had one costume in mind: Harry Potter.
Since she started reading the Potter books in the summer, she’s been obsessed. We’ve gone through five of them (she just reread Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone), and her passion shows no sign of abating.
Every burgeoning wizard needs gear: a cloak (Amazon!), a Gryffindor scarf (birthday present!), Potter-esque glasses (Target!), and a wand (an adapted pick-up-sticks game piece!). And don’t forget the forehead scar! My wife had all of this on lockdown.
My daughter got to wear the costume three times, and with her missing front teeth and her hair tied back into a bun (she wanted to be Harry, not Hermione), she looked really, really cute.
We’ll see if she still wants to be Harry when the next Halloween rolls around.
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