So, as I may have mentioned we went to Phoenix last week and while we were there the kids got to go to Parker's Trunk or Trick. My big bro LOVES Halloween and goes all out in the costume department. A few years ago he and Hannah dressed as Sully and Boo from Monsters Inc. He made the costumes himself.
His wife is such a good sport, too that year she went as olive oyl, because Zach wanted to be Popeye.
Anyways, this year I have gotten Stephen hooked on my fav kids show (yes I am taking credit for it) Phineas and Ferb. You'll have to go to his blog to see the fun costumes. SO my kids had a great time.
When the time came for Halloween here, Zach decided that he wanted to be a werewolf. And I (forgetting I am SO not supermom) agreed to make him a costume. Here comes the drama part- I had this brilliant idea: I would cut up one of his many stuffed animals and hot glue the pieces to ratty clothes to simulate fur. I still think that it was a pretty good idea and would have turned out okay. So I am cutting a brownish dog that I don't recognize as anything important when he comes in the door from school. He sees the pile of brown "fur" on the table and says,
"What happened to Yoda?"
"Who's Yoda?" I innocently ask.
"My very special dog that I got for Valentine's Day when I was 5," comes the reply.
"What?!" I am thinking, how did I not realize that I was massacreing (is that a word) his beloved pooch? I am officially the worst Mom ever!!
So I call him over to explain my brilliant plan (which doesn't seem so brilliant anymore) and the poor kid is trying sooo hard not to cry, because he knows that he is getting older and really shouldn't care so much- BUT it's Yoda! come on Mom. AS I am trying to show him how cool Yoda's fur will look as a werewolf costume he interrupts saying, "Mom can you please just sew him back together?" (Have we met? Me sew?) "Is that what you really want?" I ask, "because then you probably can't be a werewolf."
"Yes," comes the answer, "I'll just be a......zombie, I just need face paint for that." I'm thinking, "Why couldn't you have come to that conclusion about 20 minutes ago?" SO I am thinking that I really didn't cut him up too much and I can probably get him sewn to look sort of what he used to. Little did I know that whilst we were discussing the fate of our friend, Yoda, my sweet helpful husband had taken said friend into the other room. Convinced that if Zach could just see how cool a werewolf costume it would be, sweet helpful hubby had cut the animal to strips of fur. SO now I have a ziploc baggie on my counter that may someday be Yoda again- but I'm thinking probably not.
Here is my zombie (and my gorgeous neice, Lauren) and I am sooo buying costumes next year!
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Hope you all had a fabulous Halloween.
2 comments:
That is so funny, I bet you could mail Yoda up to Shannon and she is a fabulous sewer, she could put him back together. Oh, the weather here, it snowed this morning, but it didn't stick. It is cold but a nice break. The past 2 weeks it has been in the 70's. We miss you guys, Levi is coming to Laughlin for court on the 13th. I wish I could go too, but can't fit in the Game Warden truck.
Ten points for trying to be crafty but your right, purchasing the costumes is the way to go. Maybe the out of sight out of mind rule will apply here and he'll just forget about the whole thing. Good luck!
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