Happy Halloween!

My Aunt D did it again!  Aunt D has been making my kids' Halloween costumes since Mr. R was born.  She even made most of mine when I was little!  She does an amazing job but Mr. R has been really testing her abilities lately.  Last year he wanted to be a specific dragon from the movie How to Train Your Dragon.  They don't make a pattern for that!  This year he wanted to be a Skylander (character from a popular video game).  He asked to be Stump Smash, who is basically a large tree stump.  Again, they don't make a pattern for that.  When the costumes arrived the kids were ecstatic!  They all loved their costumes!  Well, maybe not all.  Hiccup was a little terrified of her tutu at first, but she got over it.

Hiccup went as a girly giraffe in honor of her BFF.  I needed something that would pack well since she would be trick-or-treating in Texas this year.  I ordered a giraffe print onesie and giraffe print leg warmers from Amazon.  Aunt D made her giraffe ears and my cousin E made her tutu.  She looked adorable!

My girly giraffe

Mr. R was thrilled with his Stump Smash costume.  Aunt D left the eyes, nose and mouth off because she was afraid of putting the eyes in the wrong place.  I had the fun job of attaching those.  In order to get his head to stay up we used a collapsible mesh bag over Mr. R's head.  To keep it from collapsing I put a small pillow inside.  To keep the pillow in place I pinned it to a baseball cap.  So inside his "head", Mr. R was wearing a baseball cap with a pillow pinned on top, with a mesh bag pinned to the pillow.  It was a very involved costume.  He loved it so that's all that counts.

The Skylander Stump Smash

Boo decided to be Merida from the movie Brave.  If you haven't seen the movie go out and buy it this week!  It's great!  Merida is a fiery, red-headed Scottish princess whose passion is archery.  For two weeks I've been struggling to keep the kids from breaking Boo's bow and arrows.  I don't care what happens to them after Halloween but before then they were off limits.  When I first put on Boo's wig she told me to fix it because it was "crazy".  After explaining that was how curly hair was she loved it.

Merida from Brave

Ready to trick-or-treat

Hiccup went to Texas with me so we took her to a local trunk-or-treat sponsored by a church.  There's not many opportunities to trick-or-treat out in the country!  Hiccup was mesmerized by all the kids in costumes.  She wasn't quite sure what to do once we started trick-or-treating but by the fourth car she had it figured out.  I had to carry her pumpkin bag but she would walk up the the person and peer into their candy bowl.  Her favorite candy are suckers so if someone gave her one she would immediately try to unwrap it so she could eat it.  At each car she would scope out the candy bowl looking for suckers.  Towards the end of the parking lot she got braver and actually handed back one man's bag of goldfish that he'd given her and tried to take a sucker instead.  Half way through the line she started telling people "thank you" to their face rather than turning her back and muttering it while hunched over her candy.  

It's an Aggie Halloween!

Enjoying her loot after a tough night of trick-or-treating

Halloween was great once again!  Mostly due to the kids' awesome costumes courtesy of Aunt D and cousin E.  Looking forward to next year!