Costume Dilemas

Today is the day the kids get to wear their Halloween costumes to school. Mae is a fairy. Caleb, after I bought stuff to make him a specific costume, is a Clones Wars storm trooper. Then there is Isabel, she's a lady bug (or as she says it, a leggy bug).

The elementary school requested that the kids dress up as a character from a good book (ie. nothing scary or mean). As Mae likes to read fairy books and already had a fairy costume, that one was easy. Caleb was different. I was going to try to make him a Pigeon costume out of one of Wendy's towel poncho pattern. I even got the towels and all other fabrics and thread! But then Caleb and I went to Target the other night and he spent the last of his gift card on his storm trooper costume. I was getting nervous about embarking on the towel project, and frankly I think Caleb was just humoring me with the towel costume anyway, so I didn't put up a fight about him getting it. And after getting the teacher's approval, Caleb is wearing his trooper costume at school today (minus the mask and light saber, of course).

Yesterday, Isabel came up to me and in a sweet little voice said "I want a bunny costume Mama". With that cute little pleading voice, how could I resist?? Answer: I could not. So we went out to find what I could use to put together a bunny costume. But before we even left the house she had changed her mind two times. To a flower. Then a clown. We stuck with the bunny and left! After going to a party supply store for some little bunny ears.......we left with some lady bug wings and antenna headband. She may not be a bunny but I do have a happy little leggy bug!

Last night Mae asked me if I would curl her hair in the morning, to go along with her fairy costume. So I set my alarm a little bit earlier and I was up in time this morning to add some curls to my fairy. Too bad that when I was almost done Mae told me that she didn't want it curled that way (with the curling iron), she meant she wanted me to flip her hair out with the round brush and blow dryer. I don't know why she didn't tell me that when we stepped into the bathroom and I busted out the curling iron!

So this morning I dropped off a content storm trooper and one sad little fairy. But she did make cute sad fairy, if I do say so myself.