I wish I knew how to sew

Husband and I have had many conversations about Halloween since Henry was born. It's suddenly very important to me. Even though Henry won't remember this year, I still feel like I would be a bad mom if I didn't start creating some family traditions around the holidays. Also, Husband's office has a costume competition and I want to participate. Last year the winners in the family category were a baby girl dressed up like a lobster and her dad in a chef costume. He carried her around in a giant pot. How cute is that?

So we've gone through several ideas over the past few months. I want a theme to unite all three of our costumes. When Henry was little we called him Henrypotamus, so I thought about dressing him up as a hippo and husband as some other animal and me as a zookeeper. Get it? I like the symbolism. However Henry is kind of fat and I don't think we should be the ones to popularize the Henrypotamus nickname. Also, baby hippo costumes cost about $40, but adult animal costumes cost way more. And Husband isn't allowed to be a zookeeper too because it's not as funny that way.

While watching Jordan Shipley careen into Bevo this weekend I had a genius idea to have Henry be Bevo, Husband a football player, and me a cheerleader. Logistics got in the way of this one, as apparently there is not a big market for baby livestock costumes. I'm sure we could find football player and cheerleader costumes but they probably wouldn't be burnt orange and that's kind of the point.

I also thought we could be the McDonnoughs from Raising Arizona. It's a movie theme so I was sure Husband would love it, but he was surpsingly lukewarm on the idea. He is afraid it's too obscure and he would look stupid at work all day with a panty on his head until we arrive to complete the family costume. I am bummed because Henry would have been so easy - just some Huggies. I did have trouble locating my police woman costume to be Edwina, as every adult woman costume is an adult woman costume if you know what I mean. I don't think my costume this year needs to involve hot pants and a push-up bra.

So a couple of nights ago I was rambling to Husband about Halloween and we figured it out. Henry will be an alarm clock and we will wear pajamas and look sleepy (not a stretch). It's a metaphor, you see. Our part is super easy and it's an excuse to wear pajamas all day. I am a little worried about Henry's costume because I will need to make it myself. I found directions for this one online and I think I can do it with minimal sewing. I feel very Project Runway about the whole thing. I'm a little uneasy since I have virtually no crafting ability, but I keep hearing Tim Gunn telling me to make it work!