Halloween Preview

Today, being the last day before Halloween, some of my children got to wear a costume to school.  Eliza's class has been studying pirates all week, culminating in a class-dress-up day as pirates today.  Believe it or not, she got two homemade costumes this year!  All she has to do is swap out the bottoms!  She plans on being a gypsy tonight for the trunk-or-treat, but for today she is a pirate.  (And, of course, her costume is labeled all over the place!)  However, Poor Andrew!  He has a store-bought costume.  I HATE store-bought costumes!  No offense to anyone who buys their costumes. 

My issue stems from the fact that my children actually like to play dress-up.  They will wear their costumes everyday leading up to Halloween if I'd let them.  Unfortunately, this does not bode well for the store-bought costume.  In my experience, they are very cheaply made (I'm talking HUGE stitches that pull apart at the seams, and nylon material that gets runs in it), thus resulting in costumes that barely make it to Halloween.  And, that only happens because we take them away and hide them from the children.  Case in point: Andrew has fingerless gloves for his costume that would fall apart at school today if I'd let him wear them.  They had runs in them like crazy!  Both of my boys have store-bought costumes, and I really wish I'd taken the time to make their costumes this year.  Oh well, I've learned and won't repeat it next year!

  

So, these two got to wear costumes today.  Kate's teacher doesn't let her classes wear their costumes because the students aren't very productive when they do wear costumes.  But, she didn't seem too broken up about it. 

And, while we were taking these pictures, Adam was busy making himself into a pirate.  Yes, those are band-aids on his eye patch.  Very resourceful, he is.