The Kids in their Costumes

This year Emmie was a pink leopard. Clay laughed and said, "Emmie's a leprechaun!" Clay was a skeleton pirate. He was even scarier than a regular pirate! I stopped in The Children's Place to see their sales and this caught Clay's eye. The store lady saw him looking at it and hurried over with a the accessory sword that went with it. Clay's eyes bugged out. He was going to be the Black Spiderman that he had worn to the carnival. Once he saw the sword it was his. Thank goodness the outfit was half off! The store lady certainly knew what she was doing.

If Clay was getting a new costume then of course Emmie needed a new one. She had seen this pink leopard costume at TJMaxx but it was really expensive and she already had a costume. I told her if it was still there when it went on sale she could have it. Luckily they did have it and it was half off the day before Halloween. The lady who worked there said some customers were about to buy it the day before.

Unfortunately the one for Clay was huge on him and of course the one for Em was entirely too small. I spent hours shrinking one and enlarging the other the night before Halloween. I nearly had to remake Emmie's completely. She made me take off the feathers around the neck and headband, "But Mom cats don't have feathers on their heads!" It didn't seem to matter that cats don't have feathers anywhere else either. I also had to line the sleeves because the feathers were poking her wrists. Ah ha! This is probably why the customers from the day before passed on this outfit. Try explaining that to a 5 year old. The kids were ultimately thrilled with their costume choices this year. I'm really hoping they will want to wear them again next year. What would be the odds of that?