Halloween Hero
Our youngest. who is almost nine, likes candy, wants candy, feels he needs candy. Dressing up to go door to door asking for some is reasonable to him. It's fine with me as well. My problem? The costume.
Most of my friends creatively think of ways to make costumes. My one friend, made her one daughter an artist last year and the other daughter the painting. This year one of them is a fish and the other a fishergirl in a canoe. How hard could this be? Caleb said he wanted to be Hero Brine from Minecraft. Minecraft is an insanely popular video game reminiscent of something constructed for the Atari game system in the 70's. It's a building block game which translates into tricking parents to buying something for kids because it's "educational".
Since Alisha's hospital stay became lengthy, I grew less interested in making the costume but to give our little munchkin wonderful child-hood memories, my husband said he would take over thisnightmare project. Good luck!
First problem arose when Caleb informed his dad the costume would not be complete unless all body parts were in attire. Hero Brine is a box of boxes in three dimensional colored blocks. Dad, wanting to be the real hero, began looking online for printable formats. There being little time to complete this project (down to 10 days) would prevent Dad from doing any tedious work. He found a format though and priced out what it would cost to have it copied at FedEx. After choking on $100, Dad thought he would trot Caleb all over Canton in search of some other costume to buy. No luck.
Caleb is extremelyinflexible determined. He wanted to be Hero Brine and no one else.
After many tears, several hours of shopping, and lectures from me on how it's not important what his friends think, he had an epiphany. No, it wasn't acknowledging how wise I am, it was "I know what I can be...a soccer guy."
Hope had arrived. This would be a cake-walk. I told him how perfect this will be since he had a soccer uniform and all the gear. Not a cake-walk. Try a mud-sling. His uniform would not suffice as it was not what Christiano Ronaldo wears. Have I also mentioned Caleb hasunreasonable specific expectations?
As it just so happened, I had ordered Caleb a new Ronaldo shirt. (I melted Ronaldo's letters off the old one. How can I be expected to read every clothing label's cleaning instructions?) Guess when the delivery date would be? Yep right before Halloween. Did I get off easy or what? Well, not so fast...
It was all set, he would wear the new shirt with his black soccer shorts and be disguised as Ronaldo. No he would not. Ronaldo's shorts are white and they have to be white. So...off I went the next day to Soccer World to buy white shorts. Perfect, all done. Not yet...
Upon inspection of the white shorts, Caleb-never-miss-a-beat Laho informed me these shorts would not work either. They did not have Ronaldo's number nor his country symbol. Spain. I tried to convince him no one would know, he would probably have to wear winter gear over the costume anyway, and my favorite, "WE ARE IN AMERICA. CHOOSE AN AMERICAN SOCCER PLAYER!" Nothing worked.
Exhausted, I replied I was done. Caleb would have to problem-solve from this point forward because I would not be returning the shorts. I thought about not returning. Caleb happens to be fairly sharp and guess what he did? He tore off the Madrid, Spain patch off his old shirt (the one I ruined), decided to glue it on the new shorts, and then take some hockey tape to make Ronaldo's #7 in the corner. Brilliant!!
Looks like I turned out to be the hero in the end because if I had not destroyed the original soccer shirt we would have had nothing to work with.
Most of my friends creatively think of ways to make costumes. My one friend, made her one daughter an artist last year and the other daughter the painting. This year one of them is a fish and the other a fishergirl in a canoe. How hard could this be? Caleb said he wanted to be Hero Brine from Minecraft. Minecraft is an insanely popular video game reminiscent of something constructed for the Atari game system in the 70's. It's a building block game which translates into tricking parents to buying something for kids because it's "educational".
Since Alisha's hospital stay became lengthy, I grew less interested in making the costume but to give our little munchkin wonderful child-hood memories, my husband said he would take over this
First problem arose when Caleb informed his dad the costume would not be complete unless all body parts were in attire. Hero Brine is a box of boxes in three dimensional colored blocks. Dad, wanting to be the real hero, began looking online for printable formats. There being little time to complete this project (down to 10 days) would prevent Dad from doing any tedious work. He found a format though and priced out what it would cost to have it copied at FedEx. After choking on $100, Dad thought he would trot Caleb all over Canton in search of some other costume to buy. No luck.
Caleb is extremely
After many tears, several hours of shopping, and lectures from me on how it's not important what his friends think, he had an epiphany. No, it wasn't acknowledging how wise I am, it was "I know what I can be...a soccer guy."
Hope had arrived. This would be a cake-walk. I told him how perfect this will be since he had a soccer uniform and all the gear. Not a cake-walk. Try a mud-sling. His uniform would not suffice as it was not what Christiano Ronaldo wears. Have I also mentioned Caleb has
As it just so happened, I had ordered Caleb a new Ronaldo shirt. (I melted Ronaldo's letters off the old one. How can I be expected to read every clothing label's cleaning instructions?) Guess when the delivery date would be? Yep right before Halloween. Did I get off easy or what? Well, not so fast...
It was all set, he would wear the new shirt with his black soccer shorts and be disguised as Ronaldo. No he would not. Ronaldo's shorts are white and they have to be white. So...off I went the next day to Soccer World to buy white shorts. Perfect, all done. Not yet...
Upon inspection of the white shorts, Caleb-never-miss-a-beat Laho informed me these shorts would not work either. They did not have Ronaldo's number nor his country symbol. Spain. I tried to convince him no one would know, he would probably have to wear winter gear over the costume anyway, and my favorite, "WE ARE IN AMERICA. CHOOSE AN AMERICAN SOCCER PLAYER!" Nothing worked.
Exhausted, I replied I was done. Caleb would have to problem-solve from this point forward because I would not be returning the shorts. I thought about not returning. Caleb happens to be fairly sharp and guess what he did? He tore off the Madrid, Spain patch off his old shirt (the one I ruined), decided to glue it on the new shorts, and then take some hockey tape to make Ronaldo's #7 in the corner. Brilliant!!
Looks like I turned out to be the hero in the end because if I had not destroyed the original soccer shirt we would have had nothing to work with.
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