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I looked around for old Halloween threads but couldn't find one, so started this.

I am wondering what everyone else's kids are doing for Halloween - we have a lot of indecision this year, partly because we found a few good costumes for way-cheap at the target (sailors, knights, astronauts, stuff like that).
Fortunately the kids have a couple parties to go to so they don't have to pick just one. Also, I think they are great for dress up. The kids are very excited about these orange astronaut jumpsuits and I can see these getting a LOT of use (mainly around the house...).

Primarily, I have a 10y.o. Darth Vader, we went out and got a special helmet for this guy, he is SO excited. It is hilarious though because the kids' mask/helmet wouldn't fit so he's got this adult helmet now, and it, um, emphasizes his already HUGE HEAD.

I would think this was just a fluke but the hat that came with dd 4's sailor outfit...I mean, I can't imagine anyone but an infant fitting it, and it was supposed to be size '6'!
Maybe that is where the cheap bites me, but I am having to resize this hat to fit her gigantic bowling ball head.

Anyway, poised for a fun time; hope everyone else is too...

Yes, larger than average heads run in my family. But they must look normal to me, cause I went out and married a guy who needed to special order his bicycle helmet.
((shrugs))
Grinity

I joke about Piper's huge head all the time! She has to have an adult sized bike helmet and hats. Piper just says it's "because of all her brain"!

-Amanda

We have the opposite problem... our craniums are super small! I can actually wear some of DS's toddler size 2-3T hats. Both of my DKs have the same shape and small-sized heads as well. It makes helmets, masks and hats a nightmare!

This year, DD8 wanted to be Anne of Green Gables for Halloween (she read the book this summer and we visited PEI on vacation), but the only family member we have who can sew is away this month. She was disappointed because she had the hat with the braids already. She decided to just be Laura Ingalls, the same as last year.

I am still searching for a Thomas the Train costume for DS2. If I can't find one, he has a super cute Elephant costume that we will use.

Several years ago when my kids were around five and six I was at a child's birthday party with them. A man came up to me and said, "Oh, I can totally tell which kids are yours because of their heads!" He was really pleased with his detective work.

We have run into the hat issue with the kids. I can wear men's casual hats, but I have trouble with sunglasses and I don't think I've had a winter hat as an adult. I live in a warm climate, but last time we went skiing I wanted a cute hat and couldn't find one.

I guess my DD's head is the normal size. Her ears, on the other hand She is finally growing into them until we get another growth spurt. Her ears are always the first to grow warning of a new spurt.

I think DD's favorite holiday is Halloween. She already knows the order in which Birthdays and Holidays fall and after her birthday was over she made a comment about the next one being Halloween as she was jumping up and down, super excited by it.

Last year she was a pirate, but this year she chose Batgirl because she wanted to be a superhero. We bought her costume from Target too and I need to fix some parts on it. Guess we pay in the end for the price tags.

She also decided that her dogs need to go trick or treating with her this year. We found a bat costume which started all of this but it was too small for them. We did finally find a witch costume and a pumpkin that would fit. Should make for an interesting night!

We have big headed people in our family as well. Dd10, when she was a baby and they were still measuring heads at check-ups, had a weight and length in the 5th-15th percentile and a head in the 95th+. Turtlenecks never fit over their big heads either. I'm left pulling and pulling while they scream as it's stuck around their brow area. It is getting better as dd12 now fits into juniors clothes.

This is the first year in years that the boys don't want to dress as a trio (we've done the Marx Bros., the 3 Musketeers, 3 characters from Robin Hood, Rock Paper Scissors, etc.); I should be thinking that this is a good thing, I know, but I am secretly feeling somewhat let down by this development! So I am busy sewing (vampire, zombie, astronaut) with somewhat less zeal than usual (I did really like their original ideas of a picnic pack of ketchup, mustard, and relish, or their three favourite encyclopedia volumes), but I'm gradually getting them done. They're excited, so that's what counts!

And yes, their heads are honking big (their centre of gravity is an awful lot higher than their mum's!!). So it's just as well that I sew all their stuff anyway.

My son's going as Harry Potter this year- no hat required.

His head is GIANT. So big that they told me when he was a baby that he would likely have autism. They were working based off of some marker that kids with extreme head growth in the first year are more likely to be identified. Nope, no autism.

We call him Sputnik- if you've seen "So I Married an Axe Murderer" it's a reference to the scene where Mike Myers' character is commenting on the kid's giant head.

Funny story- DS has heard us say "It's like Sputnik" probably a thousand times in his life. He thinks it's hilarious. We have a little shtick we do where one of us says a line and then someone else says the next one. A few years ago we were in line for Haunted Mansion in Disneyland. The castmembers are supposed to look extremely serious, even menacing. DS clunked his head into me and I said "Head, MOVE!" and DS responded with the next line. The castmember started laughing so hard he had to excuse himself from the post to catch his thoughts.

If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you can find the movie clip on You Tube. DS hasn't seen the whole movie, just this scene.

DS's helmets, masks, etc NEVER fit! It drives me insane! His bike helmet is 8+, but it's not going to make it to him turning 8, let alone until 10 (or whatever the next size up is).

DD's don't either, but that's mainly due to her hair (picture an afro with looser curls).