Things have been pretty fast paced around here between the new home building process and all our other everyday things, so making three costumes this year was out of the question.
We took the kids for a trip to Wal-art and walked the Halloween isle. Keira saw a costume for a garden gnome and thought he was was Santa (the costume did look like Santa with the beard and red/black plaid outfit). Then, she saw the girl gnome costume next to it and was shrieking with excitement. There was no talking her out of being Mrs. Santa. So, one costume= done.
Devin wanted to be a train, not a train conductor or engineer- just a train. The only costume in stores was for Thomas the Train and there was nothing to it but, a poncho that had a picture of Thomas on it. Not exciting at all. So,I gathered some household items- a diaper box, a shoebox, a Big Gulp cup from 7-11 and some paper plate. And, Mike helped me assemble and paint it. He LOVED it!!!
Reagan was a toughie at first because every costume that we liked wasn't available in her size. So one day Keira had her play clothes out and she dragged out the skunk costume that I made for her two years ago. We tried it on Reagan and it fit perfectly. So, at least all those ours of manual labor to make the costume got two uses in return. The kids had a blast on Halloween. The pony company that hosted Keira's birthday invited us to their Halloween party with pony rides, a petting zoo, and a haystack maze. After playing there,we headed home to trick-or-treat through are neighborhood , where every neighbor loved their costumes so much that they emptied their treat bowls into the kids' buckets. Candy overload in this house!!
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