For Halloween this year, Jack and I thought long and hard, debated on several ideas, and finally..we decides that Preston would be a hamburger and we'll be the fries and soft drink that complement him. I had no idea where to get a hamburger costume for Preston. Luckily, my coworker told me about Old Navy's burger costume, which I searched for and found only on Ebay. It was a few years old I guess, so all were used that's in his size. I started watching and bidding and got out bidded twice! It was a nightmare! so finally, i had to resort to ordering a buy it now that's a size too big for him, and then pay $15 in expedited shipping to get it to us on time. It was ridiculous.
However, all that hard work paid off because Preston wore it a handful of times (Loan's bday party, Wholefood treat-or-trick event, Andy's church fall festival, and his school parade), it kept him warm, he didn't mind wearing it, he was in a unique costume (only hamburger oh yea!) and best of all, he looked so darn cute in it! Everyone wanted a bite of my baby.
However, all that hard work paid off because Preston wore it a handful of times (Loan's bday party, Wholefood treat-or-trick event, Andy's church fall festival, and his school parade), it kept him warm, he didn't mind wearing it, he was in a unique costume (only hamburger oh yea!) and best of all, he looked so darn cute in it! Everyone wanted a bite of my baby.
As for silly, ole us, we made our costumes. Jack was a McDonald's soft drink and I was the french fries. I found my inspiration from someone else's family picture online, but did it my way and with a few suggestions from Jack, we had ourselves a pretty neat family costume...tada!
For Jack's costume, instead of using poster board to make the cup, we just hot glued the felt design material onto a plain white t-shirt. This was a great idea because he was comfortable all night and was able to carry Preston without ruining his costume. How the heck do you not ruin a cardboard costume if you had to chase a kid around all night and hold him 70% of the time? The only thing was the cardboard hat (cup lid) was difficult to keep on, so he didn't wear those for too long, but people still got the idea.
For my costume, i went shopping at Forever 21 and found myself a red skirt, yellow tank top, and a red head band. Then, we bought foam board and paint from Michael's and made french fries. I hot glued the fries onto the tank once they were dry and positioned them so they look like a bunch of fries. I cut out the remaining foam board almost like an upside down triangle, painted it with yellow stripes for the inside of the fries box, and all red in the back, hot glued some velcro onto the board and onto my shirt for easy attachment once the shirt is on. Otherwise, the shirt is hard to put on as is with the stiff foam stuck on it. Finally, i sewed my arm warmer using felt.
It was so much fun dressing up as a family. Although it took many hours to put together, it was worth it because we made a pretty good happy meal family :) and "i'm lovin' it!"
