Hope you had a fun and safe Halloween this year. We sure did! My kiddos were the perfect age this year to really enjoy it. Of course, I wouldn't being doing my doting mommy duty if I didn't brag about how cute my kiddos looked. Personally, I think they were the cutest costumes I saw...maybe just slightly prejudice, I know. :)
My two-year-old daughter went as Minnie Mouse and my 6-year-old son was R2DT from Star Wars. At first I figured R2D2 would be easy to find since Star Wars is so popular right now. What I didn't realize is that R2D2 is not in the new movies and cartoons. Tons of Stormtroopers and Darth Vadar costumes were readily available, but leave it to us to pick the one character for which a costume doesn't exist.
Luckily, my son LOVES to do craft projects so we decided to fully embrace his R2D2 passion and tackle yet another homemade costume. I must say, despite all the trips it took to find the supplies, it turned out AWESOME! He was the hit at his school costume parade and in the neighborhood. Believe it or not, we ended up making the R2D2 costume out of a trash can! Wait just a minute. Before you start giving me any creativity points, I have to admit, I completely borrowed the idea from familygo.com. Another wonderful (and much more creative) mom graciously posted her pictures and step-by-step directions of how to make the entire costume. Thank you, thank you!
It was pretty cute watching R2D2 (complete with working lights) walking up and down the street. Our neighborhood is only one square block - perfect! You make the loop, buckets are full, and you're done! Instead of having kids walk up and ring the doorbell, many neighbors simply set up Lifetime folding tables and chairs at the end of their driveways so they could see all the costumes, and kids quickly knew which houses were handing out candy. One group even made it a neighborhood socializing event. Costumed adults set up a 8' Lifetime folding table and about five different neighbors had their treats on the table for kids to fill their buckets.
After the trick-or-treating, my husband and I donned our own homemade Halloween costumes - Titanic Survivors - and headed to a costume party. (This time the costume idea was completely our own!) Another successful Halloween. Now, I just have to figure out how to get rid of all this candy before the Easter Bunny comes!