Halloween

Halloween is one of my very favorite holidays.  For Elsie's first and second Halloweens, I made her a lobster and a ghost respectively.  This year, for the first time, she is old enough to get it, so I just asked her,
"Elsie, what do you want to be for Halloween?" 

The first few days that I asked this question, I got a different answer every day:

"A blue monster." 

"A purple robot."

"A pink owl."

No matter what she said, I smiled and nodded enthusiastically.  "We can do that!"  I quietly worried that she might change her mind up until the last minute and I wouldn't know which costume to make in time.  Finally, an answer stuck.

"Elsie, what do you want to be for Halloween?" 

"A monkey."  

"A monkey." 

"A monkey."  

Several weeks later, the answer is still, "a monkey," so a monkey she'll be!

Hub is encouraging me to model the costume after the recently discovered lesula monkey of the Congo.  He says, "Our friends would appreciate that!"  And he's right: our friends are totally geeks like that, but I fear that costume would require far too much explanation.  Also, a mane!  Though the blue butt would be a cute touch.

Drawing by Kimio Honda, pulled from National Geographic's Article on the Subject

I think I'll stick to the biologically incorrect monkey costume, actually modeled off of chimpanzees or bonobos.  Fix up some big ears and a tail, and she'll be set.  Can't wait!