"Gickey Mouse, Gickey Mouse, Gickey Mouse…"
That's all we hear about, 24/7. Gickey this, Gickey that. There was no question that Bo would be Mickey this year for Halloween. Actually, he has been wearing his Mickey costume around the house most mornings. He even wears the hood all the time, which is something that I could never get any of my other kids to do. Hats, hoods, not happening.
And this is Mickey, post church trunk or treat. He was wiped out. This picture cracks me up every time I look at it. He looks like roadkill.
No, I did not make the Mickey costume. No sense when I found a perfectly awesome one at Toys R Us. I already knew that the boys didn't want to match each other like last year's Star Wars costumes, so I was off the hook for making costumes. Or so I thought.
Justice had really been struggling with what he wanted to be for Halloween. He's feeling like he's at that in-between age, where he isn't even sure he should be trick or treating anymore. So he was debating whether he would even dress up, and then he apparently had an epiphany of epic proportions in the mustache section of the Halloween store.
"MOM!!!!!! Can you make me a kilt?"
Say WHAT?
Yeah. He asked me to make him a kilt. I shrugged my shoulders, told him I guess I could come up with something and then asked him why. The mustache gave him an idea. He wanted to dress up like his cub scout leader. Justice really loves the guy, he was his scout leader for all the years he was in cub scouts, before Justice moved up to boy scouts.
The guy just happens to have a grey handlebar mustache, and is known to don a kilt ever so often.
So I brainstormed about the kilt, until my head nearly exploded. I was in full blown panic mode when The Coach asked me a fairly simple question…
I don't know why this is so complicated for you. Ain't it just a skirt?"
Oh. Well yeah, I suppose it is. Once I came back down from panic land and realized it was just a skirt, I had no trouble with it. I pleated the back section, and did two flat wrap around sections for the front and added a huge strip of velcro in case somebody tried to de-skirt him on Halloween. You know how boys are. I made the kilt, the sporran (the black "purse" thingie) and the garter dealiemabob's for the socks (they are called flashes, they are made of ribbon or fabric and stick out under the fold-over of the sock. You can't really see them well in the pictures). It was a great costume.
I sewed that black bag (sporran) out of vinyl and added a chain belt thing. I tried really hard to be "correct" in what he was wearing.
Bahahaha. Classic.
And here they are, together at the church trunk-or-treat. He was really touched that Justice dressed up like him, he was tickled over it. The look on his face when he realized that Justice dressed up like HIM was priceless.
So let's talk about Jack.
Jack REFUSED to allow me to make his costume.
"I want a shiny costume from Walmart!"
Ugh, really? OK, whatever. Mama couldn't care less. So we went to get him a shiny (slimy is more like it, 100% polyester as thin as gauze) vampire costume.
I just went through several dozen pictures, and there isn't a single picture of Jack with his eyes open. Not sure if that was some special vampire trick he was trying to pull off or what, but this is the best you get of the vampire in the shiny vampire shirt.
Justice did have the guts to wear his kilt out trick or treating on Friday night and it was a huge hit. Everybody liked it. I was scared people would think he was as school girl or something horrible like that, but they didn't. Everybody knew what it was, so my fears were unfounded. I guess the mustache and bow tie sort of make sure you know it's a guy thing. It was really fun to make, and now he wants his own REAL kilt that he can wear. I'll get him a kilt if that's what he wants. I'm just glad we have raised a son that has the confidence and courage to pull it off.
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