The View from Here: {alter ego}

Bei Bei had a pretty low key Halloween this year. While her oldest sister traipsed off to a costume/birthday party on Saturday night, and older sister had her pants scared off at a five-star spooktacular Halloween party hosted by her classmate (whose father is the general manager of a Hilton hotel) replete with a haunted trail and creepy dinner (ghoul-masked waiters, eye balls in goblets of green slime); Bei Bei and her Korean classmate contented themselves decorating hard, tiny pumpkins with Sharpie markers and playing in the relaxed way five-year-olds are famous for.

But even without a Halloween party of her own, and without any trick-or-treating this year, Bei Bei found a way to "alter her ego". In fact, she does so nearly everyday! In the single day that this was photographed (with camera on my first generation iphone) she wore this sequined mask, a purple tutu, a witch hat, and a Hawaiian hula skirt. She daily plunders the dress up bin and creates great combinations.

My older girls don't dress up so much anymore. Yes if there is a birthday party invite that stipulates a costume is required. Yes if it's Halloween, or Book Week or International Day @ school. It used to be there wasn't a day that went by that EHJ wouldn't don the Old Navy cow costume (circa 2000) and spend the better part of the day in it, but it's been ages now since my middle dabbled in dressy-ups. And forever and a day since my oldest did.

So I will relish the moments Bei Bei spends altering her ego. Even if it means that if I round the corner to see how her teeth brushing is coming along I find her in a cami and baggy Chinese undies posing in the mirror in a sequined mask, without toothbrush in sight!

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