Why oh why did I decide to make them myself rather than just buying them?! Hmm, maybe because I am an idiot? Or maybe because I'd feel guilty being a stay at home mom if I didn't? Regardless of why, I decided to do it and boy am I sorry! It has probably ended up costing about the same to sew the costumes for the kids as it would to simply purchase them already done. Then besides the money spent is the vast amount of time involved, it takes quite a bit of time to cut out the fabric, sew it, press it, finish it... Although, the kids get something really personalized out of the deal.
Lil' Miss has decided she wants to be Super Girl for Halloween, now before you get all excited this is not the Super Girl of Superman fame, she came up with this idea independently. Here's the best part, when I asked her what her superpower was (because most heroes have special powers dont'cha know!) she informed me that Super Girl brings rainbows to people. Yes, rainbows. And what is special about that exactly, well it keeps changing. At first she brought rainbows to teach people their colors, but now it has morphed into being a kind of replicator (where the food comes from in Star Trek for you non-geeks) that pops out fruits and veggies with special rainbow dots on them. Does my kid have an imagination or what?!
Since every hero needs a nemesis (now imagine that word being used correctly by a 5 year old playing with her My Little Ponies and you have some insight into my world!) Super Girl is faced with the catastrophic powers of Destructo-boy! Yes, we the parental units are really imaginative, aren't we. Seriously, with a nickname like that how could he be called anything else? With the window rapidly closing on how many years we get to dress them in coordinating outfits I like to take advantage of it as I can.
Sadly, we the adults don't really get to play along this year as we have in years past. Lil' Miss has always had an entourage with her, Mister Vonkysmeed and I, Grumpy, Chatty-Cathy, and Kako Grikor all tag along with her on the special day, and after the first year we have all dressed up right along with her. I think her Alice in Wonderland year was a favorite of the neighborhood, I was the Cheshire Cat, The guys were all cards, and Chatty-Cathy dressed up as the Red Queen. I guess we'll all just be mild-mannered citizens according to Mister Vonkysmeed, at least the kids are happy, isn't that what really matters?
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