the blue blog archives: happy halloween

The Halloween costumes are done! Yesterday after school the boys cut out felt face parts.

We put the pumpkins back up on the ironing board and the boys stuck the eyes and mouths on just the way they wanted them. Aren't they great? They drew those mouths all by themselves!

I did my part by finishing the hoods last night while they were sleeping (and while watching "While You Were Sleeping"). The boys woke up this morning and couldn't wait to try them on.

posted by alison at 9:15 am | in sew halloweeny

Comments

So so cute. Wait until your daughter is that age. She could be *super* crafty like mine! It's a lot of fun.

Posted by: jocelyn at October 31, 2006 9:49 AM

So cute! I think that's a wonderful twins costume-- basically the same but with personalized handmade faces. I'd love to have them knock on my door! Happy Halloween.

Posted by: Kate at October 31, 2006 10:07 AM

Awesome! I love how the boys got to make their own faces. :) They did such a good job too!

Posted by: Andrea at October 31, 2006 10:14 AM

That's too sweet the way they want to help!

Posted by: laura b at October 31, 2006 10:28 AM

I love the fact that you let them make their own faces...That is something that they will always remember!

Posted by: Darci at October 31, 2006 10:37 AM

awww.... they did an AWESOME job! I love it when my kids put on their own finishing touches!

Posted by: bfmomma at October 31, 2006 10:40 AM

Adorable!

Posted by: elizabeth at October 31, 2006 10:52 AM

The costumes look SO professional Alison - and having the boys draw the faces themselves - just perfect. What an awesome non-OC mother to let them do that rather than to put your own version of "perfect" on the costume. The sweetest!

Did I mis when you said the due date of little Miss BlueBlog? I have something for her already - can I send it yet? I need your address! And thanks for the updated S'pooza 4 info on the sidebar. :)

Posted by: Laura at October 31, 2006 11:48 AM

It's been fun following this process! Looking forward to pictures from tonight! Will they compete with the Thing1 & Thing2, I wonder???

Posted by: Mary at October 31, 2006 11:52 AM

Those are awesome. I love that the boys were able to help design them.

Posted by: Sarah at October 31, 2006 12:48 PM

Too cute!

Posted by: amanda at October 31, 2006 1:18 PM

Too, too cute. It's great that they participate that way. Last year my grandsons drew faces on pumpkins & their mom cut them out. I don't know if she did so this year - she's in her last month of pregnancy, very tired & just had bronchitis for the 2nd time this pregnancy. We'll see tomorrow when we go over to help out with the older boy's 5th BD party with his friends (I sometimes call him our binary baby - born 11/01/01). I love that movie - at least in part because it was filmed in the Chicago area - the Christmas scenes in the family house were filmed in River Forest - about a mile from my house. But I love the sweet story too.

Posted by: Donna at October 31, 2006 1:19 PM

Too cute!! They did a great job on the faces...

Posted by: Vicki at October 31, 2006 3:23 PM

The costumes look adorable! The boys did a great job with the felt faces.

Posted by: Irish Clover at October 31, 2006 3:26 PM

Your boys are looking so grown up lately.

They are going to have such awesome memmories of Halloween.

Posted by: Traci Sue at October 31, 2006 4:23 PM

What lucky boys to have such an awesome mom. They will never show up at school with someone who has the exact same plastic costume. Can't wait to see them!

Posted by: Vicki at October 31, 2006 5:54 PM

I could not wait to get home after taking the girls trick or treating. I knew you would have the boys in their pumpkins!!! Very cute!!

Posted by: linda knowles at October 31, 2006 9:32 PM

WOW. so Awesome. and so funny, I watched while you were sleeping a week or too ago...it was on my dad's cable.

Posted by: Orli at November 1, 2006 1:55 AM