HALLOWEEN IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER!!
I love Halloween, always have, but now its even more special because God gave us Evie on October 31st two years ago! With our annual Not-So-Scary Halloween Costume Party just days away, we've been planning and prepping and sewing and painting and fitting and refitting. I think we're ready, finally! Five costumes is no little thing people!!!
Here are some photos of our prepping and fitting. I also included photos of Evie with her Halloween blanket I made for her while in the NICU. It was gigantic compared to her at birth! Every year I put her next to it and pull out the camera. So here is a progression of her three Halloweens with her blanket, (technically 2 Halloweens and one shortly after her very first).
More photos to come after our party and trick or treating!! Check back soon!
Kira is going to be a dinosaur!
This is Ian's old costume, mom-made! I'm quite proud of this one! Took me so long to make, I decided all of my children will HAVE to be a dinosaur at least once for Halloween! Kira is pumped about it!
For those of you who play Halo, you might recognize this dude! Here is our very own Master Chief! Still in progress...
Ian (Master Chief) comes equipped with 2 gernades, a Gravity Hammer and an Energy Sword! Watch out!! Ian couldn't be more thrilled about this costume! I made it with cardboard, spray paint, velcro, aluminum foil, and loads of duct tape!!! Its been the toughest costume this year and most time consuming!
Evie will be a little witch this year. My mom bought her a beautiful orange and black costume w/hat! Super cute! I'll post those after the party, I'm not gonna make her put it all on again just to take prep photos... :) That'd just be cruel and unusual punishment for a two year old!!
This is the best photo I could find of her and the blanket just after she was born. Not the best comparison, but you can see how itty bitty she was! (That's Aunt Nikki holding her)
Evie's 2nd Halloween, her 1st Birthday!
She had no hair!
And here we are this year, just days away from being 2!
She's getting longer and has way more hair!
And she can sit upright to play with it too!
Little game of torture the baby! She couldn't figure out how to take it off of her head, so she'd pull herself forward til she was laying face down on the floor trying to pull it over her head! So funny!!
Oh My! How beautiful is she?!! I love this little girl so much!!
She looks pouty, maybe because this was the 38th picture I'd taken of her! I bet she's still seeing flashes in her eyes!P.S. Evie is still rejecting her Right (1st) CI! I am back to taping the Left one on just so she'll have sound. I'm staying away from connecting them both with our Ear Gear/Headband contraption because she pulls the Right one off and therefore the Left with it!! She's leaving the Left one alone when its the only one she's hearing out of, so we're happy with that for now.
Also, we're all fighting a virus here at home and have had school and work skippers because of it. And now it seems to be Jesse's turn, so keep him in your prayers that he will not get it as bad as I did, so he won't miss any RN school which would cost him academically.
