Elle recycled this Cleopatra costume that is on its 3rd year of use at our house. Paige used it the previous 2 years and my niece was the original owner. That headdress and collar took some serious work by my sis, Kelly. So glad she lets us enjoy her handiwork.
Mike joined me this year for the elementary school costume parade. He hasn't ever been able to before but this is our baby we're talking about and he didn't want to miss the magic entirely. As always, he claims the right to take the girlies trick-or-treating. That's his thing and I'm always the candy hander-outer.
Paigie was a glow stick alien. Of her own creation. :)
Haley went home with friends right after school and decided to trick-or-treat in more affluent neighborhoods, figuring that the candy would be bigger and better. She came home with quite the loot. Weird, though, that I didn't get to see her on all of Halloween. Her Tribute costume from Hunger Games was pretty simple but her 'bloodied' face was definitely the work of adolescent girls going crazy with fake blood.
Christian and his 2 sidekicks (all of whom are too old to trick-or-treat anymore) decided to terrorize the kids who came to our house. Ian was Dracula and Jeffrey was this extremely creepy, deranged clown guy. Creeps me out just looking at him.
Their plan was to have Christian answer the door as just himself to see if the trick-or-treaters were 3 year old Buzz Lightyears or princesses. If they were, Christian gave them candy and was very sweet to them. If, on the other hand, they were slightly older, Jeffrey & Ian would jump out as Christian reached back for the candy. Scared the bejeebies out of some of those kids, judging by their screams.
They also took to the roof and just hovered above the front door. It was pretty creepy, even if you saw them as you walked up the sidewalk. Last year, these 3 pulled off a decent spook alley in the back yard. Halloween is always fun with teenage boys around....
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For the record, I didn't make that headdress. Bought it at the costume store. We did make the collar. But I don't remember the thing around her waist. Was that something you guys added? Elle looked great - WAYYYY better than the kindergarten girls in Simon's class.
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