Costumes

My kids love dressing up.  They always have.  On any given day who knows what my kids will be!  A princess, a knight, a dog, a Jedi, a lion, a cowboy and it goes on and on.  As far as their imaginations can carry them, which is pretty darn far.  I love watching them use their imaginations.  Dressing up, creating a world.  Sometimes the world is just on paper, sometimes the world is created around them. 

Drawn by my 7 year old son

This past weekend we attended two Halloween events - the school carnival and a church party.  So we'd spent the past few weeks coming up with the best way to do their costumes.  My younges, her costume was easy - Strawberry Shortcake.  We already had the costume, just had to buy some red hair spray.  My next oldest decided he wanted to be the Headless Horseman.  Wowzers!  We ended up having him wear his dad's old duster and painted his face to look like a pumpkin.  We bought him a black cowboy hat and he was set.  Next oldest child wanted to be Alex Russo from Wizards of Waverly Place (played by Selena Gomez).  She had clothes that would work, we bought a black wig, a wand, and some cute black boots, so she was ready to go.  My oldest wanted to be the tenth Doctor Who (the David Tennant Doctor).  We got him a nice brown pin striped suit (he needed a new one for church anyways), a blue shirt, red/blue tie, white sneakers, glasses, and a sonic screwdriver.  Getting his hair to do the messy hair look was a pain!  That boys hair likes to lie flat.  The kids had a fabulous time at the parties they went to.  Nobody really got who the older three were, at least not without hints.  That's okay though, they knew who they were and they were happy.