I Love My Mummy!

Halloween is just around the corner and the kids are so cute! Blake insists on wearing this "I Love My Mummy" halloween t-shirt for the last two days. It's so cute. He just liked the scary shirt and I of course loved the joke, too. He doesn't get the double entendre obviously. But the other cute thing is that the mummy glows in the dark! Too funny!

We usually stay away from all the scary stuff completely, but we were looking for some pants for Blake as he is growing so fast he is almost completely out of alll of his pants and we stumbled across this really cheap t-shirt. And such a cute sentiment, too! He-hee. He just would NOT leave me alone about it. Oh well.

I've got to get to work on his costume, like QUICK, though. I am retrofitting his fireman's costume from last year. It is Navy with orange and silver stripes on the bottoms of the legs and sleeves. And the silver stripes reflect the light, which is very nice for trick or treating!

Since he is so set having a Thomas the Train costume and those costumes are either so expensive or cheesy looking, I am going to sew strips of red fabric over the orange to make it the colors of Thomas the Train.

I hope I can find some sort of Thomas emblem to sew on the jacket. That would be great. A conductor's hat would really top off the costume perfect, but getting Blake to wear any hat is impossible. Even Thomas the Train hat. Too bad. But I think it is going to look great!

As for my sweet, crazy, all feminine little girl.....for some reason, Emily is all about the scary stuff this year! She just is enthralled with anything spooky! The scarier, the gorier, the better. Fortunately she is still excited about being a fairy. She was going to be a black fairy, with these beautiful wings, after we found this beautiful black skirt at Walmart. It had a button that made the little filaments inside the skirt glow and undulate in different colors. Too cool! Really verry pretty. Man! What I wouldn't have given to have these kinds of things available as a child! There are so many cool things out now! Truly amazing technology for everything under the sun, even kids costume!

Anyway, we couldn't find the black skirt, so I was really starting to freak out inside, because she was so set on this black fairy thing! We just hadn't been able to fit it in the budget yet, and I was afraid this might happen.

But Lord be praised, we found the exact same skirt in white when we went back to get it, and she was just as happy with it, especially when we found the beautiful wings that went with it. All white and pink and purple, with a little bit of orange and yellow, with some silver glitter on them! So we added a pink leotard, white tights, and pink satin gloves and she's set. We've already got lots of cool dress-up makeup to play with, and some glitter and rhinestones. She is going to be just so precious! She is sooooo excited! I'm going to take lots of pics for sure.

And honestly I'm really glad it worked out this way, because if it gets dark earlier than usual, the white will show up better than the black costume anyway.

If I have time, I think I might try to add some extra glitter or sequins to the wings to make it glisten better (like every little girl dreams of). She will just love it! And then some velcro to the leotard and the wings. 'Cause I wanna make sure the wings don't flop down all the time like they always do with those costumes. lol.

Oh, speaking of wings flopping.....Emily was telling me, very seriously mind you, how she wanted to install some strings on her wings that she could pull to make her wings flap while she was walking. Hilarious! Already a little engineer. She's always listening to me talking about how to make things work a different way and she already thinks outside the box. I love it!

I just want to make sure that she develops a real sense of self discipline and direction. Her teacher is very impressed with Emily and her exceptional intelligence. (We just need to work on her focus.) Emily and I both are working on that, in fact.

So, off to the store to get some red fabric, velcro and back to the sewing machine! Wish me luck in finding a Thomas decal and getting this all done!

Dream It, Believe It, Do It!