Blood Suckers

Months ago, maybe even last year, when I asked Monkey what he wanted to be for Halloween, he replied that he wanted to be a mosquito. 

Wait?  What?

What 6 year old kid wants to be a mosquito?  I had other suggestions.  How about a dragon?  A pirate?  Captain America?  A cowboy?  A firefighter?  Nope.  The kid really, really wanted to be a mosquito. 

And that's fine.  Only how does one go about making a mosquito costume?  The costume section at Target suddenly seems quite mundane.  This forced me to get creative and actually make a costume. I found some wire shaped fairy wings, that I bent into a more insect-like shape and then spray painted gray.  We bought gray sweats and a gray and black striped hat.  I got a black headband and fasted on black pipe cleaner antennae.  The nose was the hardest part: it ended up being a engineering feat that combined a blue baby suction bulb and a paper towel roll that was covered in duct tape (yes, a little red-neck, I know, but sometimes, you just have to go with what works.)  I painted the tip of the nose red for good measure.

Bug was a lot easier.  He decided to ditch the cuter costumes of previous years and go with something more Halloween classic: a vampire.  Fortunately, all the requisite parts of this costume were easily purchased at a store.

It was only when we were doing a trial run of the costumes that we realized there was a theme to the boys' costumes.  Both are blood suckers. 

Blood suckers hungry for candy.