Happy Halloween! This is Alex's evil little pumpkin look, but my husband laughed at it and said it looked like a carrot.
Halloween warm-up is almost over. Are your most important cos costumes ready?
Before I saw an article on the Internet [Before having a baby vs. After having a baby] ’s Halloween status comparison, I couldn’t help but smile after reading it!
Your Halloween look is like this before you have a baby...
Your Halloween look has become like this after you have a baby...
Your pumpkin decoration is like this before you have a baby...
After you have a baby, your pumpkin decoration becomes like this...
Haha, the wheel of life will always lead you to a wonderful intersection where you are going... After you have a baby, your mood for celebrating Halloween is really different from before.
looked through my own old Halloween photos, lamenting that time flew and youth was gone. Fortunately, I was enjoying it in time at that time, and the party kicks I stepped on in those years could also become precious memories.
This picture can definitely be used as my [Before having a baby] comparison picture. Can you recognize it? The one on the left is me...
When I was having Halloween with my husband in Shanghai in 2014, I costed the first time " Game of Thrones " that was being broadcast at that time at that time. I costed the little finger of the woman in red
This year, there was an Alex added to the Halloween costume for the three of them. I had to spend some time preparing a match for the family Halloween costume for the three of them.
To be honest, what I don’t adapt most to in the United States is buying Halloween costumes. Because, there is no Taobao! It is difficult for me to buy a costume like "Game of Thrones" with high demands without a omnipotent Taobao. It’s not that I’m unwilling to spend a lot of money to create a beautiful look, but this kind of clothing that only wears once a year and that is not available for any other occasion is too limited. In my opinion, any too much investment is a bit wasteful.
summarizes the principles of clothing selection in our family: not too expensive, but cool enough; the baby's style should be free from those cheesy animal clothes, and should be comfortable and easy to wear; the husband's style should be suitable for his current long hair, and it is best to have a bit of significance to commemorate Alex's first Halloween; the characters of the three people in the family must be logical and match each other... Emma! With so many requirements, is really forcing herself to become a clever woman !
So I started brainstorming alone: I must start from the baby’s needs point, because there are too few choices for Baby costume.
Baby clothing that can be bought in general stores is either pumpkin or animal
Go to the nearby Party Store to look for inspiration without any gain. So I started to look through photos of my husband's Halloween when I was a child. The idea was that if Alex could wear the same cos costume as his father back then, it would be a warm and creative idea.
This is my husband (the little baby on the left) and I celebrated Halloween with my brother (the masked on the right). Grandpa and grandma hugged them
The first time my husband wore the count in "Sesame Street". The husband in the photo is simply cute! Imagine Alex wearing this outfit and turning into a mini version of her husband...
But the question is: Then what should my husband and I wear to match the count?
Continue to search the intestines and scrape your stomach and think about ideas.
A few days later, the three of us went to a Greek restaurant where our husbands often went to when they were young.The layout of this Greek restaurant is very simple, with many portraits of Greek mythology painted on the walls. I suddenly felt inspiration: the clothes of these mythological characters were just a piece of wrapped fabric, which was very simple; the men all had long curly hair and a crown in the shape of leaves; my husband's father's family was an early Greek immigrant to the United States, so Alex has a part of Greek bloodline.
pairs, this year our family’s styling theme should be “Greek God”!
In the various cos costumes of the Greek gods, my husband and I finally chose these two pieces of
Once the theme is determined, my husband and I will be able to handle the clothes easily, and the baby's clothing will be the simplest cos in history- A piece of white cloth to solve the problem! (Are there any good friends who are better at living than me?!)
So my husband and I went to a nearby handicraft store to buy fabrics and prepare to DIY yourself.
There are everything in the handicraft store
In the United States, it is very common for you to DIY Halloween styles, especially when parents take their children to use their brains and hands, which is also a parent-child activity to develop brain power. That day, I saw a mother and her daughter selecting fabrics in the handicraft shop. Their daughter's shape was a kind of avocado. Mom kept muttering to her daughter with avocado core hanging around her neck while looking at the fabric: "Well, you're still a little short of turning around, let me find it." Looking at the complicated tailoring and workmanship, I felt secretly glad: Fortunately, Alex's clothing is just a piece of white cloth .
We bought a piece of cotton soft white cloth in the store, a strap, a Greek-style cloth belt, a handful of glue
When we got home, we started to do it. It took less than half an hour in total to complete it: because the main link is just to dig a hole in the center of the fabric.
In fact, the holes were cut too big. After Alex put them on, it turned into a shoulder-mounted suit
Then he made a hair strap and a belt according to Alex's head circumference. The task was done! I also put on the costume and tried out with Alex, ha! I don't think I'm like a Greek goddess, but Alex is like a baby in the Bible.
Premium makeup photos of Alex and me
Alex said he was very happy in his DIY Halloween costume
The last highlight is actually my husband. When he walked out of the locker room, I almost thought it was Jesus who came to the world...
Our family of three finally got their job done!
Finally, I wish you a happy Halloween party!
With the author's authorization, the original first published in Daguan Family.
Author introduction: Lena, former Uber marketing manager and marketing director of East China District of City Pictorial. Currently, he lives in , San Francisco Bay Area, USA and is a full-time mother. I have a programmer's husband and a boy (Alex) under one year old. Dedicated to being an observer, operator, recorder and sharer of life.
