I love Alexandria. I like to pretend I live there. And it would be great if I did since it is so close to Brian's work, but we don't. But I love all of the boutiques on King Street, and have been wanting to get in them for a while. I finally got my chance when I read about Alexandria's Boutique Trick or Treat last Saturday. We dressed up the boys and headed there for a great afternoon checking out lots of new places. I have lots of places to take my little sister to shop now when she comes out here next.
We took a break midway through to go to an author visit at the local bookstore,
Hooray for Books!
We were one of only a few there, so it was awesome that Theo basically
got his own personal reading from the author of a pretty popular
children's book. And since we are focusing heavily on numbers right
now,
Ten Timid Ghosts
was the perfect story at the perfect time. The author/illustrator
Jennifer O'Connell even did a drawing using input from the kids. And
Theo got his first signed book.
(I forgot to mention that the cool people at the comic store were so impressed with Theo's Superman costume, that even though they weren't giving out treats they tracked us down on the street to give Theo a FREE comic book. He spent about the next two days totally absorbed in it.)
After this, we let the kids nap while we drove out to the Udvar-Hazy
National Air & Space Museum's annual Air & Scare event. This is
free, being a Smithsonian, but requires a $15 fee for parking. They
stayed open extra late for this event, and it was packed. Besides the
candy stops, there were story, craft, and activity stations. Our three
year old had a great time.
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| Racing his "witch on a broom." |
I should have mentioned last year that none of our Halloween costumes
could be complete without the help of my hubby. He is surprisingly
crafty, and has a knack for figuring out how to get things to work.
Every year he willingly completes whatever I ask. This year, I
unfortunately did not get to pick out the costumes. Theo got it in his
head that he should be Spiderman, and since there was know way I was
making that, I talked him into Superman. I don't think he really knows
who either of these heroes are, but he was convinced he needed to be
Superman. We almost had him convinced to be a "knight in shining armor"
(from a favorite Sesame Street episode). He agreed once we explained
the sword he would get. And the fact that Eli would be a dragon. But,
he recently went back to just wanting to be Superman. So, Eli was
paired up as Batman, naturally.
These were pretty easy
to put together. We found the shirts and tights at Wal-Mart and some tights/socks and undies at Target (this is the second year in a row Theo is wearing girl's tights) and
then got fabric, felt, and ribbon (yellow belt) at Joanns. I put together Theo's cape
based on this
tutorial, and we threw socks and hose over Theo's rain boots to make them red.
While this was Theo at 44 months, his father was the same character many years ago at 38 months of age.
His brother was Batman too.
For
Elijah we went ahead and paired him as batman too, since he didn't have an
opinion on the matter. His cape was a lot more complex when I realized
he should really have a hood and a bat-look to it. I basically came up
with it on my own, making a newspaper template to fit him, and using
these three tutorials for ideas.
Super Hero Hooded Towel, Bear Hooded Towel, Cape Expectations
Brian then made Eli's black gloves, and their emblems also.
For more costume ideas, check out these links for
2010-2012 and
2014.
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