Halloween Costumes

I got lucky this year and didn’t have to buy any costumes, although I am planning to shop for some after-holiday costumes to fill out our dress-ups. 

Charlotte really wanted to be Rapunzel and luckily a friend of ours wasn’t using her Rapunzel dress this year and lent it to us.  I made Charlotte some yarn hair to go with the dress.  She absolutely loved the yarn hair so it was well worth the effort it took to make (which wasn’t much).10.28.11 Halloween costumesIsaac really wanted to be Flynn Ryder (from Tangled), but I couldn’t find any costumes online and I didn’t feel up to the challenge of making him one so he had to settle for a knight costume that we borrowed from a friend. (He is trying to look ferocious in the picture below).10.28.11 Halloween costumes (6)Nicole seems to really like butterflies and she loves wearing her ballet leotard so she borrowed some wings and a tutu and was a “rina butterfly.”  She had some trouble with the wings and ended up just being a ballerina which she seemed perfectly happy with.  In fact, she loved the tutu so much that I found her sound asleep in bed the other night wearing nothing but the tutu (and a diaper).  Also, I seem to have failed to get a solo shot of her::10.28.11 Halloween costumes (3)Ila didn’t seem to want to try on a puffy baby costume, so she wore a nurse costume that I purchased for Charlotte a few years ago.10.27.11 Halloween Library eventHere’s the whole group:10.28.11 Halloween costumes (11)