i love coordinating family costumes for halloween so everybody matches somehow. i'm a dork like that. a quick stroll down memory lane will show that quite clearly:
2008: mahna mahna guys
2009: juno
2010: bavarian yodelers - minus the yodeling
so halloween costumes this year took a lot of thought given all the factors at play: a toddler and a pregnant belly... it seems like a lot less factors when i write it down than it did when it was running through my head during the planning process
i landed on what i must admit was true brilliance
a fisherman, who caught an adorable little fish, and has another fish in his wife's fish-bowl belly. feel free to send me doting emails about how clever i am.
and even though the tiny little tail on the backside of q's costume was fantastic, and the fact that the poor boy had to walk around for a couple of days in his fishing waders made for a good story, i'd have to say the best part of the whole costuming was when my sis decided to go into labor during the halloween magic show we were all attending, meaning i got to go to the hospital to check in on them while wearing these pants
i really wish i had a better picture of how fantastic these pants were. full-on sequins from top to bottom made these babies shimmer enough to blind someone in the sun. they were the perfect pants to sport in the maternity ward... *
as if dressing up for halloween wasn't a treat enough, we got a second opportunity to dress up a couple of weeks later at the boy's nephew's bar mitzvah. i forever love this kid - he wanted to have a 50's themed party at the historic car museum in reno. fan. tas. tic.
of course, right when i got the invite, i started looking for the perfect getup.
the boy was a no-brainer. his middle name is "f." that's it. nothing attached to the letter except a period. he used to ask his parents about it as a kid and what it stood for. his dad told him it could stand for anything he wanted it to stand for. so, the boy started claiming that his middle name was...
the fonz
i sported the classic poodle skirt with high ponytail high school cheerleader (the pregnant belly added to the whole ensemble)
and q stole the show with this fantastic outfit
i love my life. the end.
* as an aside, my sis had an adorable baby girl who will for sure one day wonder why she's so infatuated with blue sequin pants, i'm sure. and since i know people can't resist a good birthing story, here's their story
