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Have I mentioned before that one of the things that I was looking forward to, while we were packing up to move to Thailand, was not having to make a fuss over Halloween? Ha. This is now our third 31st of October here in BKK, and it's all that Madeline could talk about for most of the month.
This year, she wanted to dress up as Snow White, but since we didn't have any luck finding a Snow White dress in the department stores or Toys R Us, Chris suggested that I take Madeline to a dress-maker. It seemed like a really terrific suggestion, until Madeline and I were at the shop and the seamstress pulled out a card with the fabric swatches to show me what kind of fabric she envisioned the dress in.
Instead of admiring the weave or the feel, Madeline immediately pointed to the purple swatch and said, "Oh, I want this colour for the skirt!" And then her finger landed on another square of fabric. "And this pink for the top!" The re-invention of Snow White's dress wasn't completed until Madeline had decided to swap the red for teal.
This all left me in a bit of a pickle. Should I have gently reminded Madeline that we were there to have a copy of the Snow White dress made so we needed the original colours, which was what her dad was expecting? Should I have just let Madeline made her own decision about her Halloween costume? She doesn't get to decide a lot of things for herself, really. In the end, I decided that colour was not a particularly big deal. It was just kind of fun to see my little girl's excitement over a poofy new dress.