Dressing Up

What can be more fun than dressing up for Halloween than a whole month of dress-ups?  Why wait when dress-up can be so much fun?  The kids have an entire box of dress-ups comprised of old dance costumes, Halloween costumes purchased from a second hand store, and dress-ups given as both gifts and hand-me-downs.  Haley was a huge fan of playing dress-up once upon a time and so Kaitlyn is not want for more in this department.  A few things are boy appropriate… I made sure.

Nathan gets into the action right off the bat wearing a dragon costume that Tristan used to wear everywhere one autumn just because he wanted to.  And I figured it was warm so what was it hurting.  Kaitlyn plans to be a pumpkin for Halloween as she tries this on.

“Nathan dragon” sits in a bin of magic wands, shoes and hats.  It’s harder to move around as a dragon.  Kaitlyn changes into a ladybug and flies around.

Kaitlyn tries out being a flower girl.  Lindsay sees her and remembers the time she wore this to school in Kindergarten!  Apparently she’d promised her friend she would wear this and could not be talked out of it.  Boy did her teacher get a chuckle out of that one. 

Kaitlyn dresses up as Raggedy Andy but won’t have anything to do with changing her hair color.  Tristan gets into the action when he realizes there is a wig.  He is always wanting to do strange things with hair anyway… I’ll have to keep an eye on that one.

Nathan plops into a huge pile of dress-ups on the floor before they are put away.  Too much excitement for him.  Meanwhile the kitten decides the excitement has just begun!

Sandy gets into the pile of dress-ups and we giggle as she ends up wearing a little mermaid skirt.

The feather boa is of great interest to Sandy as well for obvious reasons.  Sandy really thinks she is one of the kids and will not be left out of anything.  Playing dress-up has been lots of fun.