i mean, yeah - if she did it. last friday, she made a huge deal in her stories about how she was going to have to drag herself out of bed to prepare the make up and hair spray for erin's costume, and then let everyone know that SHE had done a great job. today, however the focus is on emails that ethan supposedly sent, and then cuts to ethan all ready in his costume - no mention of the hard work or effort she had to put in to create it. the cynic in me thinks that she left ste to sort out ethan's face paint, especially considering how bad we know she is at applying make up, and erin's costume last week consisted of babs smudging purple eyeshadow over her nose and spraying her hair with blue hairspray, i can't imagine her sitting and having the patience to create all those little wrinkles etc on ethan's face. fair play to her if she did, but it just seems a little off that she isn't basking in glory at what SHE has achieved, which kinda implies that it wasn't her who actually did it. i guess we'll find out in this week's vlog - or possibly not, because although erin's birthday had an entire vlog dedicated to it, ethan's was skipped over, so possibly featuring his world book day costume - despite his excitement - won't be a priority. i wonder if we'll heat how happy, happy, HAPPY he was with his costume, as we did for erin, repeatedly.
last week's post for erin: "this one was OVER THE MOON for mummy to shove a load of make up on her face, let her wear blue nail varnish to school and dye her hair blue! I'm making the most of it while i can. What a ruddy beauty!" compared to ethan's: "HE planned HIS idea for so long. HE emailed all the family to take part in a vote. HE was fully invested." don't get me wrong, his costume is great, but i kinda get the impression that babs was far more invested in erin's costume and kinda left ethan to fend for himself. lucky for him, because he's a creative kid and probably devised a better costume than a toddler-style costume that babs enforced on him, but it just highlights the difference between her relationship with the golden child and that with ethan. and whilst i don't believe he created a poll for the family to vote in - or bloody "posters" (?!) - i can imagine him resorting to emailing his family for advice, because he probably asked babs which character he should be, and she angrily dismissed him with a "go ask your dad". poor kid.
