Costume Schmostume

I'm looking at my clock. It reads 12:55 AM.

This means two things of utmost importance.

#1) It's officially October!

I love Autumn - the leaves change color, the crisp, cold air, and even the rainy Seattle weather is all a sign that "the holidays" are coming.

#2) Christmas is coming. REALLY SOON!

Giggity Giggity. My favorite Holiday season. EVER.

Anywhoo...

First thing's first. I decided to nix on re-writing my blog from last night. All it does is irritate me that I'm re-writing, so after the hubs and I talk about it again, I'll re-write my post when there's new, fresh material bouncing around in my brain (that wasn't so previously typed, then deleted). Makes for a much better mood for yours truly that way.

Secondly, I'm really stumped on Halloween costumes this year. The irony of this is that I've actually bought Kaleigh two costumes already and taken both back.

The first was a Monkey, but after much consideration, I decided she looked like a boy. I WILL NOT have my child be mistaken for a boy. Ever. For those of you that know me, you know my child is always dolled up. For those of you that don't know me, let me explain: My child was the baby who wore the obnoxiously large flowered headbands on her head since about the time she was born. She had one in every color, and is also known for her stylish hats. She currently wears either a bow in her hair now or pig tails that stick up straight like antennas (makes for better reception). She wears pink and purple and everything always matches. She is a girly-girl, most definitely. So, you can imagine the horror in my head as I realized that she would probably get called a boy, so I took that costume back.

The second costume I can't disclose because I still may go back and buy it. Let me tell you, though, that it is an AWESOME costume. Very unique and very well done. The pros list for this one was endless. I loved the colors, the costume itself (how it was made and the quality), the costume for what it was (like I said, a unique idea that most likely won't be alot of this year), and Kaleigh could potentially play in it for the couple years to come. The cons, though, were enough for me to take the costume back and think about it since I bought it so early. The thing cost me $67 after taxes, which, in my opinion, is pretty outrageous for a costume. I partially justified it to myself though by saying that she could play dress up in it later on, so hopefully it would serve more than just for one day of wear. The second big con was that I have no idea what my husband would be, as this costume would be Mama _______ and Baby ______, but husband would not dress up as this, nor would he want to even if there was a costume for a male. We dressed up as a family last year because we went to a party after, so we are having a tough time deciding on whether or not we're going anywhere worth dressing up for this year. We have some great ideas, but nothing has clicked in my head so far like it did last year.

Here we are as a Beekeeper, Mama Bee, and Baby Bee in 2010!

We got so many compliments last year and even had random people stop to take our pictures when we took Kaleigh downtown Edmonds for trick-or-treating. The con to having such great costumes last year, though, is that now we feel the need to do something just as clever and fun this year. *sigh*

My husband has been working so many days/hours that we haven't had a chance to discuss it much, but we're hoping things will calm down in a week. He's working all weekend, and yesterday he didn't even get to see us. He was up before we were (which isn't hard since we sleep in until 10 AM), and got home after we'd fallen asleep. I ended up waking up when he crawled into bed, but Kaleigh was still passed out.

Maybe once we get our lovely butts to an actual Halloween costume store we'll see something, but I'm not getting my hopes up. I've researched online, on ebay, on craigslist, and yahoo answers for ideas and nothing seems to jump at me.



And so .. the search continues. Will keep you updated!

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