Home made costumes

 2005-Charlie was a cow.

 2006-Charlie was a Purple People Eater.  She LOVED that song.  Everyone thought she was a tella tubbie.

 2007-Charlie was Strawberry Shortcake.  Her very first store bought costume.

 2008-Charlie wanted to be Randy from A Christmas Story.  We thought it was a super creative costume.  She went around telling everyone, "I can't put my arms down."  Very few people understood.

 2008- Brantley was a knight.  This was the year that someone donated a dragon costume to my class. Charlie found it and had to be a dragon to go with B's knight costume.  We usually do several nights of Halloween stuff so it was easy to accommodate her.  

 2009-B was a Purple People Eater.  I loved that costume so much and it fit him this year.  Charlie was a princess.  Her grandmother made the dress.

2010- Brantley wanted to be a monkey.  Charlie wanted to be Lucy Little from The Littles.

2011- Charlie wanted to be Velma (a gift from Santa aka Grandma) last year for Christmas.  Brantley said for two months leading up to Halloween that he wanted to be a lion.  Then one day in the story we walked through the Halloween section the first part of October.  He pointed to the shelf and said "Mommy I gonna be that for Halloween."  He was pointing to a can of silly string.  I asked him.  "You want to be what?"  "I gonna be a can a silly string. I gonna shoot all the people with my silly string."  I knew that Dusty would LOVE that.  I kept asking for about a week and he never returned to lion.  So, he was a can of silly string.  I love that my kids costumes are very "non-traditional."