Wizard of Oz

For those of you who might not have heard, we have a family Halloween costume theme planned - the Wizard of Oz. JM has a cute lion suit (hopefully it won'tbe too warm), Gracie will be Dorothy, Clara is super cute in her wicked witch outfit, Mike's the tin man, and I'm dressing as the scarecrow. Okay, this will only happen if I manage to get all the costumes ready (the kids are mostly done), even with Mike out of town all week!

So once we had the plan for the Halloween costumes (I picked two of them up at the big kid's consignment sale that I love - JBF!), I started thinking it would be a good idea for the girls to actually watch The Wizard of Oz. But I remembered it as being a pretty scary movie and Mike concurred. I also talked to my friend, Laura, whose daughter (Beth) is also going to dress as Dorothy this year. Laura also thought the movie would be too scary for Beth (who is 4.5), but then she found out that Beth had seen it on Grandma's house and loved it.

So I still wasn't sold on the idea of the girls watching the Wizard of Oz, but I thought I might let them try it. I tried to have the library get us the Muppet's Wizard of Oz but it didn't look like that was going to happen before Halloween. We went to the library on Friday morning and there on the shelf was the original Wizard of Oz. I decided it must be fate & we checked it out. Gracie woke up with a fever on Saturday, so it was a great time to try it out. Also, Clara was out with Daddy at the store & we were worried about her and the tornado scene (she inherited her mommy's weather scaredy cat genes).

Well... apparently our generation was scared to death by the Wizard of Oz, but it is entrancing & not scary to our kids! Gracie loved it and Clara came home from the store, sat down on the couch & pretty much didn't move until it was over. Then she watched it two more times later that day (okay, so that's an awfully lot of tv for one day, but I was off enjoying a day of scrapbooking and Mike was managing all three!).

So, Beauty and the Beast ... scary! Finding Nemo ... scary! Monsters, Inc. ... scary! But Wizard of Oz with its monkeys, munchkins, wicked witches, and the great oz is just dandy.