Costume Preview

Here is a sneak peak at our Halloween.


Natalie is "the night sky". She saw the idea in a magazine and made the costume by herself, with just a few sewing pointers from mom.


Emily is a hippie, or in her words, "a disco dancer". (She and I spent a lot of time debating the difference.) After I had finished sewing her vest she looked at it and said, "No offense mom, but it looks waaaay better than I thought it would." I guess that's a compliment.


Brandon is a Pokemon Ranger from Pokemon Platinum. I love his costume because, except for the hat and scarf, it is made of actual clothing that he can wear this winter. Hooray for clothes doing double-duty!


Bryce is Snake Eyes from the GI Joe movie. He wins the award for the most drama over a costume this year. He and I looked at a lot of costumes and he was going back and forth between wanting to be the black ninja or the white ninja. Of course, when I got to the store to buy the costume I couldn't remember which one he had finally picked and I bought the wrong one. I told him I could take it back and exchange it for the right one but he decided he would keep the black one. A week later, when it was too late to return the costume, he changed his mind and had a big fit because he didn't want to be the black ninja. Luckily, Mark came to the rescue and promised to buy him a sword to go with the black costume. It's amazing what a Dollar Store sword can solve.