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September 10, 2012

What’s the Greatest Halloween Costume You Ever Wore?

Halloween is still weeks away, but the kids and I have started thinking about costumes. It’s hard not to as the leaves start falling and the pumpkins start turning orange!

While we were discussing costume ideas the other day, I asked the kids if they remembered the story of how their dad was this close to wearing a princess costume to the hospital the night that Andrew was born. What?!? they said.

It’s true: I was hugely pregnant and due any minute the week of Halloween. So I embraced the roundness and dressed as a pea for our friends’ Halloween party. With a Barbie mattress on my head. And Tim was the very large, pajama-wearing princess.

It would have been so funny to show up at the hospital like that, but Andrew didn’t arrive for four more days. Oh, well. At least I have some great photos of Tim in a long, blond wig.

We’ve had some fun with costumes over the years, like last year’s Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. And we’ve seen some seriously fun and creative ideas, like the Flying Elvises that showed up at our party one year. But I think my all-time favorite costume was a woman dressed as a wedding cake—she even smelled like vanilla.

What was the greatest Halloween costume you ever wore? Or have you ever seen a costume and thought, how did they come up with that? Please share!

{ The top photo is Lexie as a witch with her little brother and the bottom one is me as a witch with my little brother! }

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  1. Martha says

    September 11, 2012 at 3:28 am

    Hmmm…I have always remembered my childhood costume of “artist” – think it was 1st or 2nd grade. I had paint-splattered pants/shirt, a beret and paint brush, etc. Not a tough one, maybe I’ll suggest it to the kids 🙂

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  2. Shannon says

    September 11, 2012 at 7:23 am

    I love that idea, Martha! Maybe I could get Lexie to dress up as an artist (should be easy since she IS one!) and then make Lily into her “painting.” That would be so cute…

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  3. Mary Jo says

    September 11, 2012 at 8:51 pm

    Hi, I dressed up as Frankenstein in high school. I made my 5″3″ frame taller by duck taping dictionaries to the bottom of my dad’s boots and covered them with black garbage bags. I wore my brothers football shoulder pads under my dad’s brown jacket, died my hands green and glued hair on them. Wore a mask and wig. No one recognized me for hours. My pic got in the year book.

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  4. Shannon says

    September 12, 2012 at 7:54 am

    Mary Jo, that sounds amazing! But I’m cringing as I think of you pulling the glued-on hair off your hands! It didn’t hurt, did it? 🙂

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  5. Mary Jo says

    September 12, 2012 at 8:45 pm

    oops spelling dyed….too long ago to remember

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