Halloween (part 4) : Costumes through the years

Our first costume was a bit 'risky' to wear out of the house (and my son would probably kill me now if he knew it was on my blog...shhhhh!), but we thought it was cute.



















Instead, we added a couple of items, and it became...










The Alfalfa costume.

This was the costume that wasn't really a costume. Jericho was really into wearing suits during this particular phase, and would often wear them to school.

Because they weren't allowed to wear costumes to school that year, and because we were heading out for a party after school, we went ahead and let him wear his suit. To make it into a costume, we used the bowtie from his cousin's wedding (in lieu of one of his regular church ties) and I snipped a section from one of my makeup brushes and hot-glued it together on one end. When it was nearly cool, I stuck it on his head.

It held up all day, but when we went to take it out of his hair that night, it was stuck fast.

Which necessitated my snipping it out.

Which left a nearly bald patch.

Which meant having to get a very, very short haircut to 'cover' for the damage.

Elf he came up with all on his own. And yep, you attentive types may have noticed that's a longsleeved yellow tee-shirt where his pants should be (with the neck hole in a place not exactly conducive to trick or treating on the mean streets of the Southwest.

Though hilarious, that one was not permitted out of the house (except for the photo).

The Fly was another of Jericho's own creations which although creative, was kept for home use only. My tea strainer was never quite the same again.
Aladdin was a joint venture between myself (the headpiece) and Jericho's grandma and aunt Cheryl. That satin was slippery stuff to work with, but gave off a great shine. This was actually a costume for a school play one spring, and the following Fall, we used it for Trick-or-treating. And it was kind of tricky getting his 'magic carpet' up to the porches with all the other kids going past in their costumes, because it took up considerable space.








Whoa, Pardner...that is Jericho all decked out for a "Halloween HoeDown" we had with our youth group at Church--he always gets to come along on our youth group outings because he's our kid ;0)



















Last year, because we had a young toddler in the house, I couldn't seem to find the time to come up with a suitable costume, and he'd outgrown nearly every costume we still had floating around the house.

Jericho, a huge X-Men fan, came up with his own Wolverine costume about five minutes before we had to leave for trick-or-treating. He already had everything for the costume except for some gloves (which I provided), and some chopsticks he found in a kitchen drawer. He did his own hair, but asked if I could use my makeup to help him with his sideburns.

He was pretty proud of himself.

Last year for Judah's birthday, Auntie Jami sent this costume. His birthday was in September, and he'd been wearing it almost constantly up to the day of Halloween...to the store, to the post office, and so forth, because he kept digging it out of the laundry and fussing to have it put on. He actually took his first steps in this costume.

And has been bouncing all over the place since.