Halloween Costumes

This is the first year that Livy has been old enough to really have an opinion about what she wants to be for Halloween. Normally we all dress up as a family and I just pick the theme.

2010- The Indian Family

 

2011- The Cupcake and The Bakers

2012- Cinderella, Prince Charming, & The Fairy Godmother

But since we're doing the Fall Festival a little differently this year, I gave Livy free reign over what she wanted to be. The adults decided we didn't care to dress up so the kids are having a costume contest.

Her infatuation with Halloween began back in September when Disney Jr. started advertising for Boo For You Halloween Fridays where all of the episodes would be Halloween themed. She got so excited and started talking about how she was "going to Ha-yo-weeen!"

Every time I would ask what she wanted to dress up as, I would get a different answer. Some of her ideas were:

• butterfly
• princess
• butterfly princess
• kitty cat
• crab
• Zoe (from Sesame Street)
• dolphin
• pink hippo
• pink shark
• purple giraffe
• rainbow
• wet tiger (a boy on Disney Jr. said he was going to be a white tiger and she thought he said wet tiger...)

I should've kept a better list because I can't even remember all of her ideas now. And boy, were some of them funny! She had the hardest time picking one idea. Sure, I could've just picked something for her and made her stick to it, but she was having such a great time using her imagination, I hated to squish her dreams!

I told her last night that we had to make a decision since the Fall Festival is this weekend. She finally decided on a rainbow, so I immediately started looking for ideas on Pinterest. I came across this one and thought it was precious! And Livy agreed.

When I woke her up this morning, I said,

"Wake up, we've got to go to Walmart to buy the stuff to make your rainbow costume!"
"Oh yea!!! Wait a minute, let me see that picture one more time. I need to make sure it has pink and purple in it."

The picture had red instead of pink so we decided to just trade it out to make her happy. We came home from Walmart, and I got my sewing machine out and got down to business. She is too excited about getting to wear her costume!