Halloween

Halloween around here is always fun. The kids have a huge collection of "dress-ups" and costumes from Grandma Dee, and there's always something great for the kids to wear. This year, however, Violet really wanted to be Violet Incredible. No problem. Check out Disney Store.com - but they are sold out. That's fine... I would go to the Disney Store in town and pick up the costume. Except for one problem. Apparently all the Disney Stores in town have closed. Oops. When did *that* happen???

That's fine. I'll check out eBay. Well. The Violet Incredible costume that was her size was going for $160. Um, no thanks.

I decided to hunt around town to see what I could come up with. I did find and Incredibles costume at Wal-Mart, but it wasn't the really cool form-fitting one that Disney was selling. Oh and of course they didn't have one in Riley's size, and if Violet was going to be Violet, he wanted to be Dash. Ack.

That's when I saw it. Jasmine. PERFECT!!! She could wear her black wig, and we already had Aladdin, thanks to Grandma Dee. Fabulous!


Like the wig? Yep. It's the same one I was wearing when I was the Elsie-wannabe ;)


Violet loved it that I put fancy makeup on her :)


I could not believe he was actually wearing the wig. My son cracks me RIGHT up.

Violet loved wearing her costume to school. And her teacher, Mrs. Piccininni, loved it, too! For Halloween, Mrs. Piccininni becomes Mrs. WITCHininni!



Of course this weekend a big box arrived from Grandma Dee for Riley. Inside were more costumes - a firefighter, a tiger, Beast (from Beauty and the Beast), and SpiderMan. Riley has not taken off SpiderMan since it arrived. He even slept in it last night. So the costume choice may change by the time the 31st rolls around. I'll keep you posted as to what they wear when trick-or-treating ;)