Last weekend we went to Nearby Big City to a Halloween party hosted by Americans. Little Girl can make anything out of paper and tape and she’d been working for months on her costume. Husband and I helped at the end with some finishing details, but the concept and materials and design were all hers.
It doesn’t seem like homemade costumes are the most common thing anymore, certainly not here in Sweden among the children of Americans. Too bad, because they are awesome. Little Girl’s costume was amazing.
Baby Brother was kind of a skeleton, but one with internal organs. Basically he just wore some of his pajamas. Thirteen-month-olds are not that into Halloween. I was supposed to be Elizabeth Warren, not that anybody could tell.
Halloween is my favorite American holiday. All things being equal, it’s the holiday I’d most like to travel to the US for. Here it’s not widely or accurately celebrated and I don’t like the candy, anyway. We did carve pumpkins, though, and they’re freezing their asses off on the porch at this very moment (winter is already here).
30 October 2012 at 9:17 pm
Well, there you have it! Plan your future trips for Halloween…although skipping it this year was a good plan, what with hurricanes and all.
I love Little Girl’s costume! It’s fantastic – and I love that she did it all herself!
31 October 2012 at 4:47 am
I feel the same way, actually in my dream getting to travel home world I would arrive a couple days before Halloween and stay till the Monday after Thanksgiving! Since to me while it is a bit sad to be away from family on Christmas it is easy to recreate where ever you are and Halloween and Thanksgiving just do not recreate the same!
1 November 2012 at 1:08 pm
That is an awesome costume.
1 November 2012 at 1:30 pm
Elizabeth Warren? How random and strange. You’re a goofball.
Very cute costumes. They postponed Halloween in our town because of the hurrican clean-up. We are going trick or treating tomorrow. And speaking of tomorrow, isn’t tomorrow your birthday?
1 November 2012 at 1:52 pm
Why yes it is!
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1 November 2012 at 5:47 pm
Haha, Elizabeth Warren..
It’s more about body language than costume there I think.
1 November 2012 at 9:50 pm
I love Halloween, and I love homemade costumes! (I feel like I’m in a support group.) Little Girl’s robot is amazing. She rocks!
Also, I love that you were Elizabeth Warren. I have a local friend who also expressed plans to be Warren for Halloween, but I haven’t seen photos.