Holy Alter Ego, Batman!

Holy Halloween, Batman...

This year for Halloween the kids dressed up as Batman and Robin. I saw a girly Robin costume on the Internet a few years back, but the kids didn't want to do this, especially because the year before Bradley was Batman. This year the kids didn't really have any ideas on what they wanted to dress up as, so I suggested this again and they agreed!  

Bradley still had his Batman costume and amazingly it still fit. We did make a few additions: we had to buy a new mask, because we couldn't  find the original. We also made duct tape boots and covered one of Richard's Army belts in duct tape for a utility belt. 

Duct Tape Boots

Duct Tape covered utility belt

I am very proud of how Olivia's Robin Costume turned out. It was mostly a home made costume. I made the green tutu (125 yards of tulle; oh my). We bought the iron on R patch for her shirt and a yellow satin ribbon for her belt. My mom made her wonderful hair bow. Richard made her duct tape boots and bracelets. Her mask was also store bought, but I had to deconstruct it, because it had ribbons and gems on it, and I just wanted a plain black mask. All in all we pulled together an adorable costume that I think is better than my inspiration. 

Duct Tape Boots

Robin hair bow and mask

Holy Duct Tape, Batman...

I also made two trick or treat duct tape bags for each of them. And let me tell you how hard the duct tape was to work with.... It wrinkles and folds on it's self. And it shrinks, which we only figured out the day before Halloween when we tried Olivia's boots on again. Luckily we heated the boots up with the blow dryer and got it to grow a bit. I do love the way both pair of boots turned out. All the kids' friends loved the boots and we got so many complements, but I don't think we will do them again, 

Happy Halloween!

Halloween 2012

This year Bradley decided he wanted to be something dead. Such a boy! Olivia is a girly girl, she wanted to be Tangled (Disney's Rapunzel).  For Bradley we decided on a generic Zombie, not very bloody though because school wouldn't allow it (Thank you school). For Olivia we got a bit creative, Rapunzel has loooong blond hair. We did the wig thing last year, and I didn't really want to do it again, so I convinced Olivia that it she should be Rapunzel from the end of the movie, after her hair is cut and magically changes brown. Problem solved, Olivia has short brown hair.



Scary!



Olivia and Pascal

This year the kids trick or treated at my work (they have done this every year for awhile because my mom works in the same building). They got so much candy it was ridiculous!

Bradley - Zombie; Kelsey - Elmo; Olivia - Tangled; Brooklyn - Michael Jackson;
Jacob - Football player; Heather (in the back right corner) - Parrot

Heather's parrot costume. My mom made this, how creative.

Jeff, Ivy and Kelsey

Ivy made her and Kelsey's costume.

Bradley's Birthday.......Oh and Halloween

For Bradley's birthday he decided he wanted to have a Halloween costume party. We invited his whole class (yes I am crazy, and no I did not have my head check before we sent the invitations). Most of his class came and of course all of our family did too. Everyone dressed up (well except for Kim :) My biggest regret is that we did not take pictures.... ummm I was so preoccupied and trying to keep kids happy and having fun.

For the party we had a dance floor with Bradley's dance mix and Halloween songs. We also had reversed bobbing for apples (apples hung from a rope), a mad scientist table where the kids made there own GAK, (I am sure all the parent's loved having that go home with the kids). We also had a ton of "creepy"food and a make shift trick-or-treat candy give away.



Bradley was quite the talk of school the next week, but I don't think I have fully recovered.... And something like that (the whole class invite) will probably never happen again. Except when Olivia remembers this party and I have to invite her whole class (AGHH backfire).

So what was everyone??? Bradley was Mega Mind. Because we knew he was not going to be able to wear the mask to school, we came up with making a paper mache head. Bradley really played up the part of Mega Mind.

Mega Minds "evil" pose.

Olivia was Strawberry Shortcake.... and very adorable at that.

Not Pictured....

Richard was a gorilla...yep he had a full gorilla suit. The kids got quite a scare out of it, then they wanted Richard to chase them all over. I was in a poodle skirt (not too original). My mom was dressed up as an actual Grandma. We had a mummy, lots of vampires and dead zombies (brides, cheerleaders). Cute princesses and lots and lots of other costumes.

Kelsey was a cut little bumble bee and Ivy and Jeff were the bee keepers.....

(Everyone say AHHHH all together).

The party ended and Halloween started, and the costume mayhem started all over again, but hey my kids wore their costumes more this year then they ever have... There is one bonus :)

Happy Halloween!

Happy October!