The Costumes.....

Pirate and Pippi

We got the old Pippi Longstocking movie on Netflix for Lucy to watch. She loved it! She and Graham have been singing, "Scrubbing day is my favorite day..." for the last two months. All of the adults knew right away who she was, but none of the kids did.
We bought the coloring hair spray a week before Halloween. We were getting Lucy's costume ready for school on Friday and I read on the instructions of the spray, "Do not use on blonde, fine hair." Awesome. So, we went to Walmart and Target in search of a red wig we could maybe use. In the end, we decided to chance it. She had some red highlights for a couple days, but after tonight's shower, it's all gone.
We braided pipe cleaners into her hair for the Pippi effect.
This guy was hilarious! The whole month of October we kept asking him what he wanted to be. He would always say, "A superhero". Then it turned into, "A superhero that goes underwater and is green". What the.....
So, we went to Target in search of a costume for Grambo. The pirate costume was quite a bit cheaper than all the superhero ones, so Jason and I were able to sell him on it. I loved hearing him call everyone "Matey" all night.
This one is my favorite. After I got done drawing the beard on him, he went and looked at it in the bathroom mirror and laughed for a while. Then he kept asking me to come to the bathroom and see it. I told him that I didn't need to see it in the mirror, I can see it just by looking at him. He insisted that I needed to go to the mirror to see it better.

And finally....our adorable little monkey. The kids couldn't stop laughing when we put it on him. It was hilarious watching him walk around in it. Lucy liked telling people he was Mr. Neilson from the Pippi Longstocking movie. He didn't love having the hood on for very long, but if we gave him a rest for a few minutes, he didn't mind if we put it back on.

This guy is walking now! He figured it out the same week as his birthday. Maybe someday I'll get around to posting about that, too. Hope you all had a happy Halloween!