homemade costumes!

This year, Stacy made the Halloween costumes, well, mostly... There were a few adjustments after she left. But I'll get to that in a bit. The kids were Sully, Mike, and Boo from the movie "Monsters Inc." Matix and Hawken have watched that movie waaaay too many times already, and are in love with it, AND, since I wanted their costumes to go together, I thought it would be perfect. The first costume she made was Matix's "Sully" costume. He loves it and still begs to put it on everyday. :) Here he is showing her where the horns should go. Cute.

Lullaby was "Boo". Stacy made her costume just a big bag so we could wrap her up as usual and then just slip her in there. It worked out great.

Hawken's "Mike Wazowski" costume was the most complex and tricky to figure out. Stacy made this jumpsuit part first. That was easy (for her).

We decided to make the ball/body out of paper mache. Finding the right sized ball was hard, but we found a yoga ball that seemed about right. Let the fun begin! Ripping up paper and rolling in it on the kitchen floor was the highlight of the day. :)

The boys had a great time, especially Matix, Hawken wasn't a big fan of the sticky mess it left on his hands and he was done after a few minutes. :)

After 5 or 6 layers were on it and dried over night(s) Stacy let the air out of the ball, and then we painted it. After that dried, Stacy cut out holes, added an internal vest like thing to help support the weight on his shoulders, and added the ears/horns on top, and the mouth...

After all the work, it looked like this. Why is Paul wearing it, and not Hawken? Because Hawken decided that he was TERRIFIED of it and wouldn't go near it. I tried everything I could to get him to wear it, I even tried to get Matix to wear it and Hawken could switch to be Sully, but that didn't work either, Matix loved his Sully costume too much.

So, we brought this awesome part of the costume to church and gave it to a little boy there who didn't have a costume yet. Hopefully Javi likes it better than Hawken did. :(

I was super disappointed and waited until the day of the Halloween party (I am such a procrastinator), and I realized it wasn't going to work, so I had to make something else.

Soooo, I made the ball part out of fabric (smaller and hopefully not scary) to put over the jumpsuit Stacy already made. I was going to stuff it so it was plump and round, but Hawken wasn't a fan of that either, so we left it limp... He liked it then and wore it all day and night. Considering all the mess and trouble we went through (mostly Stacy), I am just happy we got him in something! Here are the (almost) final products. Some more glue was added to Mike's eye to hold it up later on. It even cuter now, if you can believe it. These kiddos are too cute.

Thank you so much Stacy for lending your amazing talents to this project! Happy Halloween everyone! :)