...so he could still participate in his very favorite holiday, without risk of potential mortification of being the only. kid. dressed. up.
Thanks to 'design mom' & her fantastic 6 ideas for the costume averse, I recommended that he wear a few embellishments- a glove... a few plastic bugs......
He liked the idea. So off I went to Target (as I do EVERY SINGLE YEAR on the eve of Halloween- despite swearing that it will/can never happen again) in search of plastic bugs... And when I couldn't find them, off I went to the even more chaotic Party City (as I do EVERY SINGLE YEAR on the eve of Halloween after I fail to find all that I am frantically in search of at the aforementioned Target- despite swearing that it will/can never happen again).
After weaving in and out of swarms of other frantic mothers... fathers... teens... party city workers... Oh, wait- they were nowhere to be found...
I found the bugs. Hours later (as Ryan was finishing up his "real" costume), the bugs were glued to safety pins, and in true 'Jacob fashion' - what was going to be a couple of bugs added to the back of his shirt, turned into several bugs... a ripped up pair of old slacks... last year's thrifted (and thankfully saved) Charlie Chaplin shoes, glow-in-the-dark skeleton gloves, a tuxedo tee, smeared dirt- on his clothes... his face... topped off with a slick-yet-disheveled hairdo. {he was going for a downgraded zombie prom king look- but downgraded or otherwise, a non-costume quickly became a full-fledged ensemble}
As I was attending to Hailey- who was wearing her "real" costume to the 8:30am parade, Ryan helped Jacob with his final touches, snapped a few shots, drove him to school...
And not one kid in sight was wearing anything remotely resembling a Halloween costume.
...HORROR.
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Mason decided to go to school sans costume - I bought him a little mask for tonight but there was no way on God's green earth was I gonna get that kid to wear a costume to school. After my freshman year Hershey kiss fiasco - I had to support him ;)
ReplyDeleteJacob has decided/declared……
DeleteNext year, JUST the *embellishments- or embellishment. :)
Hershey kiss fiasco… sooo funny. I just told him about that last night! I told him that you reminded me that we did dress up in high school!
Oh poor guy. He looks awesome, though! I remember high school Halloween- we always dressed up in group costumes- at least that way we knew there would be a few friends in the same boat :)
ReplyDeleteGroups… such a safer/better way to go. If only guys thought more in terms of “groups”!
DeleteHe said that he *heard a couple of his friends were dressing up, but he wasn’t even comfortable directly asking them!? I guess asking questions such as this isn’t COOL.
But neither is the alternative :).
being a high school boy is hard!!!! I dread these waters!
ReplyDeleteDid he survive the horror? I guess he did, seeing as he wore the pac man snuggie later in the day ;) That is a well adjusted child. I'll give the mom props for that. :)!
ReplyDeleteAww... high school can be so tricky! I think he looked very cool in his non-costume. :)
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