When our oldest son Jericho was just a little over a year old, I thought it would be great fun to make him a costume to go trick or treating in. I went to the fabric store and pored through the catalogs, finally opting on a darling little sheep costume and immediately purchased all the supplies for it.After a week of fighting with my sewing machine, ripping out a dozen seams, and then using a needle to 'fluff' where the sheep's 'wool' got stuck down in the seams, I finally finished. Late the evening before he was to wear it.
The next day, we dressed Jericho in that costume, and he got all kinds of comments for looking so adorable. However, he loathed that costume. With a passion. He squirmed and pulled on it and fussed and wanted if off. But we did manage to get a couple of cute pictures of him in it for posterity.
When Jericho looked back through our family scrapbooks a couple of years ago, he was totally disgusted, "Why would you put me in a bunny costume, mom?" In defense of all my hard work, I replied, "It's not a bunny...it's a cute little sheep. And you got a lot of compliments in that costume, I might add." He just rolled his eyes. "I looked hideous!"
Fast forward a decade to this year, and we could be once again found searching high and low through our home for that costume. After enlisting daddy's help to move things around out in the garage, we opened up a plastic tub with a sealed up bag inside, and voila! Our lost little sheep costume was found!
After sneezing ourselves silly from moving stuff around out in that dusty corner of the garage, we brought it inside and promptly tried it on Judah. We were not disappointed. It looked darling. And precious. And so very cute on him. Even Jericho, when he saw it on Judah said, "I've got to admit, mom...he does look adorable in that." Wow, and vindication on top of it all!
So here is our second little sheep.
Here is that darling little sheep blowing me a raspberry.
And here is our adorable little sheep just wanting to get the stupid costume off. "Off, mommy...ah-hah-hahoffff!"
I'm not sure why, but in the fuzzy haze of deja' vu, this whole costume experience reminds me of something else....now what was it?
Oh. Yeah. Now, I remember.
Poor Ralphie.
7 comments:
Oh Becky - this was the cutest post and those are the cutest costumes and boys! You are so funny - I loved this post. See ya.
Yes, poor Ralphie. He is 4 times too big to be wearing a costume like that, and PINK, my goodness gracious! But our little lambs are just too cute. I can barely tell the photos apart~~which one's Jericho and which one's Judah, the boys look so alike. I'm afraid I am like my mother. I am a shameless braggart about my grandkids, but I ask you, have you ever seen anything so cute in your life? Its okay, if you have your own grandchildren~~~you don't have to answer!
Ah, I have the pictures with my boys in those fluffy costumes. But my favorite was working so hard to paint and create "James the Red Engine" for Jonah while Trey was a conductor. He saw that box, and all the cool kids in their Batman costumes and wailed, "My costume is from the garbage!"
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Verra, verra cute. At least you have the pictures.
BWAHAHA!
That costume is sweet! Too bad the boys didn't think so! They were adorable in it! :o)
SO ADORABLE!!! And I love the Christmas Story reference. LOVE IT, I say.
Thanks gals, for all your nice comments. I loved my cute little sheep, but alas...with boys, it seems their 'cute' limit is about three. Or, for Judah, two. He wouldn't cooperate on crazy hat night, and I'm a little concerned about tonight (Halloween) as it's "HOBO" night...how am I to get him to hold his little sign?
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