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Now, be honest…
Didn’t you JUST realize your house is on fire? He’ll be there to put it out as soon as he puts his shoe back on.
Not quite
I thought we had one Halloween outfit totally sorted.
There are only two little issues to work out.
1-he is about to outgrow this. Like, today.
2-He. Hates. This. Costume. Somehow it isn’t as cute when he’s trying to rip the hood off and screaming as loud as he can. Which might actually be a good thing, since it could cut Trick or Treat down to where I don’t have to surreptitiously discard candy to save us all from the sugar-spaz.
Hm.
Kid’s got the right idea
Run, Keeghan, RUN!
Pushing the season, as is usual around here.
This is Halloween
This was, bar none, the absolute best Halloween of my entire life. And that’s all I have to say about that.
Splat the Cat Came Back
You may remember that Ian wanted to be Splat the Cat for Halloween. Also, you may remember that, lacking confidence in Splat’s availability as a commercially produced halloween costume, Mommy was knitting Ian a Splat the Cat Hat. So now you are thinking… “yes, very funny… and the child wearing it is adorable and IS NOT IAN.” You’re right. She’s not. One of Ian’s friends graciously agreed to model it for me, because the total time this thing has spent on Ian’s head since I completed it two weeks ago is about 48 seconds.
It’s not that he doesn’t like it. He does. In fact, he loves it. He thinks it is hilarious. He thinks Mommy should make its mouth. And he likes to stand in front of the mirror and play putiton takeitoff putiton takeitoff putiton takeitoff for long periods of time. Too bad this is not at all photogenic.
So I went to Target and spent $8 on a mass-produced Fireman costume. That, he’ll wear.
More Halloween Madness
Burke Lake Park does an annual “ghost train” for Halloween. There are more fairy tales than ghosts. Ian’s favorite was, hands down, the pirates, although Bob the Builder got an honorable mention.
Moral of this story…
If you want your gingerbread house to look really nice when it’s done, do not, I repeat, NOT allow me to apply the icing. Next most remarkable thing about this experience: Ian did not eat any of the candy OR FROSTING while building the house with a friend.
Mommy, I want to be…
Yes, I know what you are thinking. In most circumstances, I’d agree. There is little with less snob value than NOVELTY YARN, and in a great many cases it does produce a “please step away from the needles” end result.
But Halloween is coming.
And in an effort to teach my Santa-obsessed child that there are holidays worth getting excited over that are not Christmas, I am working on Ian’s Halloween costume. So far, about 80% of the time, he wants to be Splat the Cat.
So that’s where we’re headed- A Splat the Cat Hat. (Insert Dr. Seuss joke here.) I am holding some black eyelash yarn double with some black Impeccable, and I’m working 3 stitches to the inch on 6 mm circular needles. I cast on 54 stitches for my three year old, or 18″ around. I’ll begin the decreases after 4.5″ of stockinette.
Stay tuned for the ears, eyes, and tail.
Boo! Hat
And today we have an example of a failed project that turned into a success…
Viola- merely embroider a pair of eyes over the world’s ugliest attempt at a raised heart on a knitted garment, and you have a charming, Halloween Hat.
And yes, that’s right- Ian had a chocolate chip cookie for breakfast today, because Mommy is AWESOME.