This year, Halloween was pretty low key as far as the costumes {for once}.
Millie went back and forth between being a super hero with her friends to a princess with her friends to not dressing up at all and then settling on Cindy Lou Who. I'm proud of her for not following the crowd - she just was what she wanted to be...and came up with the idea and her costume herself. The only thing we had to buy was the top. I thought the hair-do would be very intense but it actually only took 15 minutes. I have to say it was perfect in the morning before school, but by the time I took a picture that evening it was a bit disheveled. Oh well, she looks darling anyway!
And, PS, she went to her first "dance" after school. They had a Halloween dance that she helped plan and decorate for Student Council. I may have found an excuse to bop over to the school and spy, but I soon realized that kids these days just stand around and talk during the dance. Sometimes they might fast dance for a second but that's it. No slow dancing, which is totally ok with me. In fact, they played one slow song and it was cut-off halfway because NOBODY was dancing! When I was her age it was all about the slow dance :)
Sambo wasn't really worried about what he was going to be until about 2 weeks before. He was just thinking about friends and football. I told him he had to decide and commit in case I needed to make anything. We got online for some ideas and within 5 minutes he had settled on the Lorax. He thought the mustache was super cool. Then all I had to do was find some orange sweats. Thank-you Walmart!
I wanted to stuff his sweats to make him chubby but he thought he would be too hot and sweaty. True.
Will wanted to be a cheerleader. I pulled out my good 'ol Spartan cheer uniform from Junior High and Voila! Easy Peasy!
The only hiccup was that the night before Halloween we got a school-wide phone message that there was no weapons, masks, or cross dressing allowed at the costume parade.
Abort cheerleader! We desperately pulled-out a gorilla {or monkey?} costume from our dress-up collection and told him it was totally awesome. He bought it - at least for the school part. He went back to the cheerleader for Trick-or-treating that night.
Quincy has known since last year that she wanted to be a witch, and lucky for her I had a darling witch costume from when Millie was 5. She LOVED wearing this costume and was as cute as can be. Of course, she had to be a witch with a cat so for many days leading up to Halloween you could find her in her witch dress with a broom and a stuffed cat. Man does she love her stuffed animals!
As for BS and I...we were weak sauce this year. Life was too crazy to worry about costumes {especially with the boys' football play-offs going on}! We missed 2 Halloween parties that we usually dress-up for because I went to Cedar City with some girlfriends to see "Les Miserables" {which was fantastic by the way}. So, we didn't really have an incentive to get fancy with costumes. Because Halloween was on a Wednesday, I had to pull something together because I work on Wednesdays and I would be considered lame if I didn't dress up. So I went as a football player. Threw on the boy's shorts and knee socks and jersey. Then a little eye black and called it good.
What an awesome Halloween and the kids looked great!
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