Costume Fashion Show

It is the Sunday after Thanksgiving and I have plenty to do, but I thought I would write about something totally not related to the recent or coming holidays.  Back in September, the boys really got interested in dressing up.  I believe the arrival of some Halloween costumes had a little something to do with this.

They will spend all morning clowning around in their costumes.  It is pretty entertaining just how "in character" they will get.  Though, as you can see, some costumes are not much of a stretch:

William wanted to make sure I got a picture of his tail.

As we are slated to move some time in the next year, I have had new energy to get things organized and tidy.  One of my long time goals was to clear out the guest closet.  This probably would have been helpful about 10 guests ago, but better late than never.  Once the boys saw this new space, they quickly confiscated it for their own use.   Their excitement became greater when I moved all of their costumes in it (as opposed to various places around the house.  On the floor).

They will come find Eric and me and tell us that a show is about to begin.  We then sit on the bed and wait while they disappear into the closet.  They will come out in various forms of undress and ask us to help fasten the backs of the costumes.  Then, they fight.  For about a minute.  At the end, Dom goes:  "Well, that's our show.  We'll now take a break.  We have three more shows".  I'm trying to get them to add some songs and dances for the ladies.

Above we have Darth Vader and Spiderman.  Below we have Anakin Skywalker and Peter Parker.  I love that these costumes can pull double duty.

Here we have Dominic modeling his Jaguar costume from a year ago and Will modeling the ghost costume we made this year following our annual viewing of "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown."  The boys had been walking around with blankets over their heads.  I realized this clothes bag from our hamper (that is never used, but often washed) made a great ghost costume that they would not trip over.  Genius, I know.

William growling like a Jaguar:

The great thing about masks is that you don't have to wait for the kids to look at you and smile when taking pictures.

Molly has yet to wear a costume, but I wanted to give you one close up of her adorable face.

Action picture of the boys while Molly contemplates her next move.  They love to "fight" and take turns over who is the dominate one.  Molly will try and get in on the action, but then scoots away if it gets a little too intense.  Eric recently discovered the hard way that if he pretends to "get" Molly, the boys become more ferocious as they fight to protect her.  Sounds like some ideal older brothers.