Several years ago, I started buying up the clearance costumes after Halloween. I wasn’t planning ahead for the next year … I like sewing the boys’ Halloween costumes … I was creating a dress-up box. I didn’t realize how much the boys would enjoy that box!
When Ricky was 3, I made him a cat costume for Halloween. Its tail got mangled, so I put it in the dress-up box rather than saving it for future Halloweens. Ricky, somehow, manages to get into that costume still. The pants barely hit his knees and stuffing falls out of the tail, but he loves that costume.
Billy just likes dressing up. He’ll put one thing on and then take it off and put on something else. You can find him by following the trail of discarded costumes around the house.
Rusty has his favorites. For a while, I couldn’t get him out of the Bumblebee the Transformer costume. After that, it was the scary skeleton costume (complete with mask) that he wore for days straight. Most recently, the Elmo costume … but that is a post of its own for another day.
Tommy has been digging the Candy Corn costume. I think he likes it best because he can get it on and off by himself. And, if he isn’t the cutest dang candy corn ever …. guess I should take a picture of that sometime!
That is Rusty as a scary skeleton and Billy as … Dr. Spiderman the Light-Saber wielding superhero … of course.
And here are a few other choice dress up moments for your blog reading pleasure … enjoy!
