My sister has always loved Halloween, but I have been slow to the party. However, now that I have kids, I am all in and totally here for it. That said, I haven't yet managed to succeed at identifying a "family costume". One, because I am not my sister, such creativity isn't intuitive. Second, and probably the biggest obstacle, doing a family anything is a bit of a challenge. Andre is temperamental. If it's his idea to wear a costume, he'll do it. If he feels that the costume was imposed upon him, he refuses. Since he isn't a planner, most things tend to feel imposed.
Anyway...
The kids don't often agree on what they want to be. This year, the two older ones each had clown costumes. I thought it would have been super cute for them to wear them. Their collective response, "I'm not wearing that in public." Really are we there already at nine and five??? Apparently, we are. The baby isn't easy either because he's got lots of opinions that he can't clearly articulate. So, he's objects with cries. So, the photo above, reflects us our truth. Generally, everybody kind of does whatever the hell they want.
Much respect to those families who managed to pull off matching costumes though. Send me messages to Chaton's World or comment on this post. I desperately want to know how you pulled it off!!!
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We didn't ask, but we thought she may have meant "Ninja Turtle."