The hardest thing is picking a theme your kids are excited about going along with. Now that there's four of us, I'm itching to do an A-Team theme, but Colin is completely uninterested and does not agree that he would be the perfect little Faceman.
In past years we've done these themes:
Superman Family - Colin was Superman, I was Lois Lane, Mike was Clark Kent, and little Lucy was a shard of Kryptonite.
I can't find the photo for this year, but we went as a Spiderman Family - Colin was Spiderman, I was Aunt May (pretty pregnant with Lucy at the time, kind of a disturbing combo with the white granny wig I wore) and Mike was Dr. Octopus, in what was my greatest homemade costume of all time.
Spongebob Family - Colin was Spongebob, I was Gary the Snail, and Mike was Squidward.
Scooby-Doo Family - Colin was Scooby, I was Velma, and Mike was Shaggy.
But what to do this year? I like to decide by June so that I have several months to figure out what I'm going to put together.
You don't just turn a baby into a shard of Kryptonite overnight, you know?
I am still laughing... it is so fitting that the baby was a shard of kryptonite that Clark Kent has to carry around everywhere. Did Mike keep saying, "Here Lois, hold this for me for a while. I feel really tired for some reason."
ReplyDeleteLucy is the cutest kryptonite ever!
ReplyDeleteRemember how she was eating her costume? Then she threw up some green.... Ah memories :-)
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My almost-favorite was the Spongebob family - your Gary the Snail costume cracked me up. But that was pre-Lucy, so I guess my post-Lucy real favorite would have to be Superman Family.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Colin would be more into the A-Team if he could be B.A. How could any kid resist that?