Halloween Costumes

As we all know Halloween is upon us this friday. I don't usually dress up unless there is a party to go to. On Saturday I went to a wedding reception where the dress code was "Horns and/or tails." Graham and I got gussied up and wore horns. I have to tell you, the red horns jutting out of my husband's head oddly suited him. They matched his red and blue tie. Unfortunately, the elastic holding the horns on was so tight it started to give him a headache, so he was forced to remove them. My favorite "accessories" included a peacock tail and a woman wearing big horned ram horns. Hey, when they said horns, they SAID HORNS.

If I had children, I think these may be my first choices for costumes. Ladies and gentleman, I give you:

• A one year old dressed up like the 1970's/80's comedian, Gallagher.
  
• Where the Wild Things Are
• And the bygone era of my friend Kirstin dressing her son as a Garden Gnome. It made me want to dress like Amelie and take photographs of him all over the world.

One that is not pictured, is my friend Andromeda who dressed herself up ag a giant banana and her son Zephyr as a monkey (his nickname is Monkey). It was pretty dang cute.

I started compiling all my costumes through my childhood and here they all are:

Nursery School: cat
Nursery School: Princess Leia
Kindergarten: Criss from the band Kiss (this was an ode my beloved baby sitter's favorite band--I wore tinfoil on my boots!)
First Grade: A Marshmallow (More on that later)
Second Grade: A Black Cat
Third Grade: Laura Ingalls Wilder (see above)
Fourth Grade: An "Old Fashioned Lady" (no comment)
Fifth Grade: no idea.
Sixth Grade: Nightfall from Elfquest
Seventh Grade: A girl from the 60's
Eighth Grade: Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz
Ninth Grade: Olive Oyl
10th Grade: A cowgirl
11th Grade: no idea.
12th Grade: a lady from the Renaissance (costume bought at--yep, you guessed it, a REN FAIR! Strike the harpsichords!)

I feel like this list is a wonderful abreviated biography. Nothing need more be said! Except one more time, just for old time's sake: STRIKE the harpsichords!