Halloween

[sal_amanda]

I love Halloween.  Easily my favorite holiday.  I hate when the stores put out stuff early for any holiday other than Halloween.  I just love it.  

So imagine my bitterness at discovering that for Nora's first Halloween, I have a fricking midterm.  Who gives a midterm for an evening class on Halloween?  Heartless jerks, that's who.  

This got me debating for a while about whether or not I should bother to do much about a costume for her since she and John will be handing out candy and I won't even get to see her until she's already in her jammies.  There is a neighborhood parade the weekend before that we could potentially participate in, but I also didn't want to be spending a fortune on a baby costume.  

We swung by the Halloween store last night and I ran in while John stayed in the car with the sleeping babe.  They had a simple $20 pumpkin costume that was essentially just a pumpkin hoodie and a pair of black pants.  I was pretty much sold on that one since it would be easy to put on and take off and didn't have some crazy headpiece that she'd hate and/or want to eat.  I ran over to the clearance section, though, and found a $7 baby Red Baron costume.  Also pretty easy for her to wear and did I mention it was $7?  The guy checking me out said something about how they should sell a Snoopy to go with it and then it dawned on me that I have my old Snoopy doll from when I was a baby that would be perfect for her to hold.  Awesome.  

Now if we could find some sort of matching thing for John to wear, we'd be gold.  And John suggested we make a propellor to put on her Bjorn.  Hee hee.

Comments

[i-am-solid.livejournal.com]

A midterm on Halloween night? What a douche.

[sal_amanda]

I know. It's for Gallineau's class. It looks like he has a pretty full agenda planned for that night, too, but I'm hoping that maybe we'll get out a little early. Not likely, but one can dream.

[beatmbg.livejournal.com]

John should be the plane. You could just make some wings out of cardboard and meter sticks then spray paint them silver, and he just needs to wear a mildly silverish outfit. With the silver propeller and wings..I thing it would be pretty obvious and really cute!! Whatever you do we all want to see Red Baron Nora!! Oh yeah, and Halloween is also my favorite Holiday!!! No other holiday comes close to it in my book. I think Marshall is going to be a fire fighter this year. Mainly cuz someone got him a very firefighterish outfit. I do believe that was my mother. hehe.

[sal_amanda]

I'll have to suggest this to him. If anyone can pull it off, it's John. Like he needs yet another thing to work on instead of his dissertation. ;)

[beatmbg.livejournal.com]

I would be extra great if he had a tail flap sticking off of his butt...hehehe

[beatmbg.livejournal.com]

oh scott has just informed me that the red baron's plane was red with a black german cross on the wings and also had 3 wings (who know this crap?) Anyway, if you would like to be historically accurate you might want to consider these things...but if you're like me...they wouldn't matter all that much. Good Luck!

[bcurse.livejournal.com]

Better still have him go out as the "Dog House".
This is something a majority of dads usually find themselves residing in, rather than dressing up as!