Halloween 2009: The Cheerleader

So, turns out if you don't call it a costume (and after she feels very accepted) Quinn can actually get on board.

About an hour before our friends came over. Quinn told me she didn't want to wear her pants. She wanted shorts. So I took the window and told her that she could not wear shorts because it was too cold, but I did have a new sweater she could wear that comes with a skirt. She seemed fine with that. We put it on, and as long as she got to wear her sandals and not get her hair done, she was on board and even kind of excited about it.

After she was dressed, I showed her pictures of her Grandpa John in his USC cheerleading clothes, and then we looked up pictures of the current USC song squad. She thought it was cool to be matchy, matchy.







My angel McKenna couldn't of cared less about what she was wearing. But here she is in her skeleton outfit.


And here is the gang for Trick or Treating 2009. We had two of Tim's cousins over to our house with their kinds. This was Nico (the Lion's) first Halloween. And it was the first time we had had Jacob and Jeffery over to play. I wore Jacob's pumpkin hat for most of the trick or treating because it kept falling off his head.





Our two favorite houses as always are Marsha and Gretel. Quinn took the boys to Gretel's garden to see her pumpkin patch. Very cool.


After trick or treating with her second cousins and eating candy all night, she watched the Trojans get creamed by Oregon with her Daddy. She never got up to dance around and immitate the songleaders, but she did start imitating the ref. "Time OUT!" she said.


I learned a lot about my daughter this Halloween, and I was reminded that it is her life and NOT mine. I am grateful to have a little one who knows who she is and what she wants. It took me 20 years to gain just half the graceful confidence that she has.





P.S. Another highlight of my Halloween night was running into there two close friends in all their Halloween glory. Love these costumes. Loves these ladies.