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DD7's Halloween costume order came in the mail today and she'll be the Statue of Liberty. She's reading up so she can to be in character. She learned the statue is made of copper 3/32in.thick, the same as two pennies put together. DD5 will be her favorite animal...a pig. What are your children planning to be for Halloween?
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Great costumes, inky! What fun your girls will have!
The lads are still dithering, but pondering being a "picnic pack" (bottle of mustard, bottle of ketchup, bottle of relish); I need a commitment soon, so I can fire up the sewing machine!
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We have a impending problem with "October thirty-oneth", which is that DS2 is adamant his costume be an apatosaurus, and not one of the many other dinosaur species that actually comes in 2T. If anyone knows of an apatosaurus/brontosaurus costume out there please let me know.
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DD8 is going to be an ancient Egyptian and DS3 will be the solar system. I'm making him a cape with a yellow hood for the sun and sewing glow-in-the-dark planets in orbits around the cape.
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love the ideas! My DS6 is determined to be a Manatee. The Manatee is his passion right now and he is basing his science fair project around building a device for the common boater to alert them to manatees in the water. But of course, there are no such things as manatee costumes....so I am sewing one...we have an F-18 fighter pilot "back up" costume just in case the sewing project turns into a messy gray bundle of fabric :-)
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Great post - very fun.
Our budget is tight and we don't buy Halloween costumes any more. This is actually worked out very well. They can just go into the dress up box and get what ever they want.
My son9 will be a spy again. He wears all black and a vest with lots of pockets. He puts on as many spy gadgets as he can manage.
My daughter will probably be a pink cow girl, a princess and a bat.
We usually do a few events- trick or treat, school dress up and library party.
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After Halloween, Our Target usually has costumes marked down to 90%.
My daughter pink cowgirl costume was bought for $2 and given to her at Cristmas.
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DD4(in 9 days) has been wanting to be a pumpkin for the past 2 years. So maybe this year will be the year! LOL. DS5.5 wants to be "any Star Wars character that uses a blue lightsaber" - he has a blue one, but hasn't decided WHICH character he wants to be. I was really hoping DD wanted to be Princess Leia b/c I could easily make the buns with her hair.
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DD 2.5 wants to be an orthopedic surgeon....both for halloween and when she grows up. We got the best costume for her and she loves it!
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... If anyone knows of an apatosaurus/brontosaurus costume out there please let me know. Maybe you can modify a dragon costume? Not sure what Lucas is going to be yet, we do have a pumpkin costume hanging around.
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Halloween is my favorite holiday!!!
Wolf is going to be Annikin Skywalker (hooray for already having pants and gloves that will work as well as the light saber). I'm making everything else out of felt because I don't feel too full of initiative this year.
Bear WAS going to wear his brother's old skeleton costume (my idea, see above comment about lack of initiative, lol). However he caught wind of my plot and has decided that he wants to be a T-Rex kitty cat.... really... So I have his dragon costume from last year that I made for his brother several years back and I think I'm going to de-wing that let out the hems and add kitty ears made of felt. Can't wait to see what people make of that...
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Wyldkat - too bad we can't get our dc together - Dd is going to be Asoka Tano!  Oh, and I own my *own* lightsaber, too. Sometimes it's perfect fun to be the parent of an only - such a great excuse to play and have my own toys! I think the *real* excitement is the face paint... I bought a few extra colors. We'll be travelling on Halloween, visiting family, and she wants to paint-up her little cousin! Actually, she was trying to convince the same little cousin to go as R2-D2, but no go. Guess a 3yo she's not a Star Wars fan quite yet!
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Oh, you have to convince the 3yo to be R2-D2! Perfect size for that.
My DS5 decided earlier this year that he wanted to be a tiki totem pole. Now he's telling me he wants to be a caution cone, again. I told him if he could fit into the caution cone costume that I made him when he was 2, he could wear it, but otherwise I will continue making the totem pole.
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A totem pole SPG, that's great! You guys are so creative. My DS7 is eternally trying to convince me there are aliens so he is going as an alien. DD3 can't decide but today she said a scary princess. Hmmm?
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My kids will be robots. First dd3 says she wants to be a bee and then she remembers ds5 will be a robot so she needs to be just like big brother.
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A lot of these sound like my house, LOL! DS7 is going to be an architect, and DD3 wants to be a robot. I was gearing up to make her a costume, but she saw C3PO on TV the other day and liked him, so maybe I'll see if there are still any of those costumes and just buy one. I feel lazy buying a costume, since my mother always made my costumes, but she didn't go to work all day, either. We'll see. 
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DD2 decided to be an astronaut. We already have a suit I brought her from work trip. I actually thought I could decide for her as she is only 27mo so I almost bought an adorable ladybug costume, luckily I asked her first. She is so independent already, I can not buy her any clothes with out asking her as otherwise she will NEVER wear them. It takes us (her) 15min every morning to decide what she wants to wear.
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Wyldkat - too bad we can't get our dc together - Dd is going to be Asoka Tano! Oh, and I own my *own* lightsaber, too. Sometimes it's perfect fun to be the parent of an only - such a great excuse to play and have my own toys! I think the *real* excitement is the face paint... I bought a few extra colors. We'll be travelling on Halloween, visiting family, and she wants to paint-up her little cousin! Actually, she was trying to convince the same little cousin to go as R2-D2, but no go. Guess a 3yo she's not a Star Wars fan quite yet! LOL I tried to convince Bear to be Yoda.
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DD13 wants to be a marine mammal trainer. We have a wetsuit, a dog whistle, and scuba booties.
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LOL I tried to convince Bear to be Yoda. Well, it got better today. Dsil had a baby boy and now Dd wants HIM to be Jabba the Hutt's son, aka "Stinky" in the Clone Wars!  I'm thinking this will be a no go. At least they gave the baby a good Star Wars name - Luke! LOL!
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