This Year’s Costume
As is customary, I have to show off my little guy in his Halloween finery (click to enlarge).
I predicted last year that it was probably the last Halloween when I was going to be allowed to dictate his costume, but fortunately he’s become rather passionate about wizards so it wasn’t too hard to chivvy him in that direction. Someday, though, he’s going to come home and announce that he wants to be Spiderman and then my little brocade-and-velvet-loving heart is going to shatter into a million pieces.*
This portrait will join the others in my Halloween gallery: We do a professional 8×10 photo of him in costume every year, choose an appropriate-looking frame (this one will go in a bronze frame with lots of twisty metal bits), and add it to the lineup. It’s a nice year-round reminder of our favorite holiday.
What are you doing for Halloween this year?
*And then I’ll sweep up the pieces and start figuring out how I can make him a functional web shooter, because my family motto is, “If a Thing is Worth Doing, it is Worth Overdoing.” But that’s another post.
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October 29th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Great photo! And I love the idea of grouping the costume pictures together.
Not sure exactly what’s happening on Halloween itself yet. I’m trying to get my last minute props done for the party tomorrow night.
October 29th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
That is cute beyond cute. And the boots! Eeee!
I will be having friends over for a low-key party, possibly with a viewing of the Sigourney Weaver Snow White: A Tale of Terror or perhaps Sleepy Hollow or some old Hammer movie with Christopher Lee. <3
Hopefully my darglefarbin gadnabbed fairy corpse will be done by then. I got the wings made, and now I just have to really mess them up and attach them. The corpse-corpse part is done.
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:25 am
hey, happy belated Halloween. why not hack a swiffer mop. if they can be hacked to spray fake blood; surely, web or silly string should be a cinch! somekind of goopy stuff anyway.