I admit it. I go overboard on lots of things. One of these things is Halloween. I start thinking about my children's costumes months in advance. It's super important to me that they don't have a costume that some other child is wearing. That's just me. It's a big deal to me to be unique at Halloween. So I usually torture myself and my mom into making sure every little detail is perfect and unique. Since I just started this blog here's a little trip to Halloween's past...
Celia's first year she was a butterfly. I couldn't just order her some butterfly costume off the rack. No, each piece of this costume was made by me. I literally glued each of these white sequins to this little black onesie in a perfect pattern. It took me FORever. I found these wings online, but they were a little too big for a 6 month old so I took them apart and cut them down then I attached the antenna to them so she wouldn't have it on her head because she hated stuff on her head at the time. And all the white on the wings? Sequins that I attached by hand. Oh yeah, and I searched forever for these striped tights. You get the picture. SO cute though, right?
Next up. My mom and I sort of came up with this idea together. We wanted something super unique. There is no child's Cruella Deville costume out there. My mom made every stitch of this thing. It cost a ton by the time we were done with all the details for it. It took me forever to come up with the right way to do her hair. I thought of all kinds of options including coloring it. But these feathers were genius. She didn't even know they were in there. Notice the cigarette holder. My mom searched and searched online for one that was small enough for her and found the "perfect" one. This costume was especially cute when you put her next to my husband's dalmatian. She won 2nd place at the neighborhood costume contest with this one. Yes, 2nd. We were totally robbed.
Last year Celia started to get her own opinion about what she wanted to wear so I let her pick. She LOVES animals so she wanted to be a tiger. I tried to think of how I could make that unique and came up with the idea of a family circus. Mark and I were clowns, Celia the performing tiger and our new addition, Kye, was the cutest ring master ever. My poor mom worked tons on these costumes. She literally made that top hat for Kye. It took her forever, but she did it for me because she knew I would want it perfect and they don't make top hats in baby size. Did I mention I love my mom? Of course, most of this is her fault anyway. She and my great-grandma made all my costumes growing up and I can't remember ever losing a costume contest at school, seriously.
Yes, that's a ring of fire. I said I was serious about Halloween. And if you're wondering we missed the costume contest last year because we had family pictures scheduled for the same time and I couldn't reschedule them. Total bummer. I am certain we would have won.
So this year... Celia got to pick again. What did she want? An animal of course. She has been into horses for a while now so she decided she wanted to be a horse. What could I do to make a horse unique? Well I couldn't make her some boring ol pony.
Introducing "Our Girl Celia", #7, and winner of the 2010 Kentucky Derby, with our little Jockey, Kye, owner, myself and Mark of course. I have always wanted to go to the Kentucky Derby and wear one of those silly hats. Well now I got my chance. It's hard to see but Mark and I have official owner badges around our necks here. Yes, I researched what those would look like and designed them in photoshop. (Special thanks to my neighbor J. for helping me get this family shot here)
And this year I actually did something I have never done before. I bought Kye's costume. Shame. But it was really cute and so much easier on my mom. She did still have to take it apart and tailor it to his little body. And we added the purple #7 patch on his arm. All the details of the Kentucky Derby had to be there. Thanks Mom!
Celia's of course is all handmade by my mom and myself.
Check out her little hooves and tail. Too cute.
I had a very hard time getting my family to take these pictures this year. They did much better last year. I tried to get a shot of the 2 kids together and this is what I got... Kye taking off as always.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
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