if i could figure it out, i would share...halloween 2009

i have pregnant brain. translation, i forget MANY things. example, i forgot the camera on Halloween! however my video camera was still at my parents house (since my brother came home off his mission) so i still got some video of my little boy, but i've been fighting with it for an hour. so let me give you a background story on his costume.

Friday morning, i began construction of his totally awesome Halloween costume. Money is tight these days and i just cant seem to bring myself to spend 15 bucks on something he will wear for a half hour. So i took a diaper box, cut a hole for his head and then two holes for his arms, and then covered that box with construction paper. I was then going to paint all the details of the costume to make it presentable. I never got to the painting. i decided to do a test fitting...and he would NOT have it. couldn't even get his head in the box. even when i told him he was going to be WALL-E, he was against it. out of frustration, i said "OK, no Halloween then!" but what does he care? he doesn't know what it's all about. We had no costume for my 3 year old the night before Halloween and i was not about to go to wal-mart and buy one. there is your history of the costume.

Well, Curtis woke up Saturday morning (Halloween) and crawled into bed with us like he would any other day. But i think he must have had a dream because the first thing that came out of his mouth was "mommy, i wanna be a star!" and i took it literally. He could have meant a movie star or a rock star...who knows. So i made some phone calls, got a large box (thank you Lee's Rite Way) cut out two large stars, covered them in aluminum foil, and then tied two pieces of ribbon to them to keep them on his shoulders. There you have it! the CHEAPEST Halloween costume EVER! Oh and the best part...i grabbed a toy gun from grandma's toy closet, and gave it to Curtis to hold, and what did that make him?........a SHOOTING STAR! awesome. we walked around my parents neighborhood trick-or-treating for about a half hour, and that was plenty! Success for Halloween...and success for cheap mommies!