Amazing Adventures of Adagirl

Ada wanted to be a bird. She has an extravagant dress with wisps of gauzy fabrics and a leopard print sash. Since it is adorned with a beautiful green feather bodice, we call it her bird dress. She puts it on and looks a little bit like a bird, a little bit like a harem girl. But we go with bird.

So she decided to wear her bird dress for Halloween. Easy for me–she wears the thing at home anyway!

Then Grammy and Granddaddy brought her two extravagant feathery masks from New Orleans. Ooh, la, la!

My mother brought me just such a mask from New Orleans after her visit years ago. So now we had three. That means David and I got to be the father and mother birds.

For all of our blue and green fanciness, according to Ada, we were sparrows.

Ada happily collects Halloween candy and trades it in for healthier candy that we buy from the health food store. Little chocolate balls in foil wrappers that look like the earth are her favorite. We also provided her with healthier m&ms, gummy bears, and lollipops, most in little baggies with twist ties from the bulk section. We don’t do a ton of candy and what there is gets eaten by the next day.

When Ada picked out a little orange wicker pumpkin from the thrift store and informed the clerk that she was going to use it for her trick or treat candy, he said, “You wont fit very much candy in that!”

When Ada showed it to her grammy, her grammy said, “Wow, you can fit lots of candy in that!”

Which is why we like her grammy better than the clerk at the Salvation Army, and why we’ve never invited him over for dinner.