I hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween night! How is it November already?
Monday, November 3, 2014
the ballerina butterfly and cyberman
Oh, hi there! Remember me? No? I'm Ruthie. I write blog posts here. Sometimes. After a humongous break, thanks to busy times around here, I am back and ready to use this space again to document my family's adventures and share recipes and fun little things. And to kick it all off, I have our Halloween pictures to share.
Rowan likes to combine ideas into one costume Two years ago was she was a fairy princess. Last year- princess bride. This year she couldn't decide between a butterfly or a ballerina, so she combined them. Honestly? I'm was just ecstatic she didn't choose to be Elsa from Frozen. Not that I have anything against Elsa, but I could have EASILY lost her in the crowd if that's what she had been. Fletcher vacillated between a Lego guy, a Minecraft guy, or a Cyberman from Dr. Who for months before settling on Cyberman. I truly enjoy creating their costumes, but I cheated this year and ordered both of the masks that they are wearing. The rest of Rowan's costume just involved gathering elements. Fletcher's, however, was a little bit trickier. I got the idea to cut pieces of silver contact paper to adhere to a grey sweatsuit, but Brian was the genius that sewed it all on so that it wouldn't peel off. Brian is a costume maestro. His Brawny-man costume was pretty great, too, since it involved items we already had around!
I'm completely biased, but I thought the costumes were the best I saw. Halloween night was super frosty, so we had to wear wings over puffy coats and fleece under cyber-clothes. But these kiddos were such troopers and completed their mission to fill up their bags with goodies. Can I just ask why no one gives out chocolate anymore?? I don't want to steal smarties and dum-dums from their stash after they're asleep!
I hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween night! How is it November already?
I hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween night! How is it November already?
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Ruthie, you are so right! And I'll tell you why they don't pass out chocolate. My little trick-or-treater did two houses and he was finished. He decided he'd rather stay and pass out candy, which I thought was super cool and pretty selfless for a 2-year old UNTIL!!--I realized that I wouldn't be getting my fair share of the candy from his loot. So what did I do that night? Yeah, I went to the store and bought a couple bags of my own chocolate and filled up my pumpkin bucket with candy so I could have so treats. I wanted to get more, but I didn't have that much money on me and holy cow--the price of some decent chocolate has really gone up! I guess a lot of people noticed too cause we had a lot of sweet tarts and nerds this year. I guess I'll be stocking up on Christmas candy now--a little at a time so I don't have to take out a small loan, hehe. Adorable costumes and they looked amazing! Great to see you around here again! xoxo
ReplyDeleteThe personality oozing out of Rowan! What a beautiful butterfly princess! And color me impressed with the costume-making skillz. I am all, let's see what amazon has in stock for us! ;)
ReplyDeleteI am in agreement on the candy situation. Sam got one Reeses. ONE! WTH?!
Yay! You're back! :)
ReplyDeleteGreat costumes, Ruthie. I really like that Brian dressed up as the Brawny man. It's perfect. And yes to combining costumes. I remember that was all we did as kids and the costumes always ended up so original (obviously). We have quite a few smarties in the candy bowl right now... yech.