Before we do the big reveal of this year’s awesome possum Halloween costume, I thought I’d do a little recap of (mostly) the boys’ past getups.
Baby Aidan rocks his reindeer outfit – I love his chubby fingers!
This was his official costume, but on the day of, he was very cranky and spent the evening in a shirt and diaper. But he was a darn cute Superman 😀
Alexander gives us fierce with his Count Dracula costume:
We won a costume contest at our friends’ party, wheee!
The first time that elephant costume will be seen, this time on Aidan; Alex was a SF Forty-Niner, and as always, the first house was our dear neighbors’, we have been truly lucky when it comes to the people on our block.
Second year for the elephant costume, Aidan was still in the grip of elephant madness, so he wore it again.
Alexander was a little batty that year (ba-dum-pum!) and he LOVED trick-or-treating.
As you can see, we got LOTS of mileage out of that elephant costume. Aidan was moving on to dinosaurs and was a t-rex rider:
This year, Aidan was into Bakugan, so daddy and I obliged. I sewed the wings and Steve made everything else.
Alexander loved Wubbzy, so I made him the outfit, while Steve painted the face on and crafted the tail.
Aidan starts his superhero phase, and looks awesome (she said un-biased-ly) as Captain America:
And, so far, the mother of all costumes, Steve knocks it out of the park with a Godzilla costume for Alexander:
Yeah, we love making stuff, don’t we? This year is Steve’s most ambitious project yet, and it’s coming along nicely. Alexander is wearing an off-the-rack costume — we hadn’t planned it this way but it’s worked out that the boys are getting homemade costumes on alternate years, Aidan’s Bakugan costume in 2010, Alexander’s Godzilla costume last year, and Aidan’s … let’s say, “of foreign extraction” costume this year. Which is nice as I don’t think we can handle TWO fancy homemade costumes AND Halloween decorations every year. Alex did get the Wubbzy costume as well in 2010, but it was just a simple jacket and pants.
Hope your weekend is going great, and best thoughts and luck to all those in Hurricane Sandy’s path.
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