Baby E’s Hallowe’en costume question
Our daughter will be almost 13 months old this Hallowe’en, and naturally Kate and I have been pondering what we should dress her up as when we cart her round the neighbourhood in search of loot in a ceremony meaningless to her, hilarious for us and probably quite annoying for the neighbourhood.
I’ve narrowed it down to three options. The first is to get the biggest pumpkin we can find, make the appropriate incisions, and fit it around her with her legs, arms and head sticking out. Then find a smaller pumpkin, cut some eye holes in it and put that on her head. Voila - a walking pumpkin. Terrifying - yet terrifyingly cute!
Then I thought it would be funny to dress her up as a Nazgul from Lord of the Rings. She doesn’t make Nazgul noises like she used to when she was tiny, so we’d have to carry a covert cassette player with pre-recorded Nazgul sound effects, so people would quake with fear at her approach, dogs bark, horses bolt, etc.
And of course there’s always the classic “ghost” costume, consisting of a white sheet tossed casually over the kid’s head. This is cute but the downside is people might think she’s meant to be E.T. in his / her / its ghost costume - when she’d actually just be herself in a ghost costume, nothing to do with E.T. at all. I fucking hate E.T.
Or she could go as a strawberry. No cleverness here, we’d just be renting a strawberry costume.
What do you think?
Edit: the form isn’t working, but I’m leaving it up there because it looks cool. Follow this link to vote, instead!
| Our daughter will be almost 13 months old this Halloween. What should we dress her up as?
Pumpkin
Nazgul
Ghost
Strawberry
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Strawberry. Strawberry. Strawberry. Strawberry. Strawberry, strawberry, strawberry. Or maybe a nice little fairy. I think I went as a fairy when I was a baby.
Posted on 22-Sep-06 at 1:23 pm | PermalinkA white dress, and a wig with long straight black hair. Then have her walk towards people, with the hair foward over her face, walking strangely disjointedly.
Posted on 22-Sep-06 at 1:40 pm | PermalinkThis’ll be a big hit with any Japanese neighbours, I guarantee.
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I like Nazgul. But I reckon a big strawberry is the direction it’s going.
Baby E already walks strangely disjointedly, and I don’t think menace has seen The Ring, Mikeachim. If we’re not careful he may well take up this suggestion, and we have a LOT of Japanese neighbours…
Posted on 22-Sep-06 at 3:03 pm | PermalinkA big strawberry it is, then.
Posted on 22-Sep-06 at 3:04 pm | Permalink….
How about a big strawberry with Nazgul hands?
I think strawberry but I like the idea of her being a fairy as well - could she be a strawberrry fairy?
Posted on 22-Sep-06 at 10:56 pm | PermalinkIf the little girls I know are anything to go by she’s going to spend the years from 2 to 5 dressed up as a fairy/princess/fairy princess/ballerina, so dress her up as a Nazgul while you still have some say in the matter
Posted on 24-Sep-06 at 7:26 am | PermalinkWhat IS a fairy princess, anyway? Do fairies have some sort of monarchy?
Posted on 24-Sep-06 at 9:31 am | Permalinkpumpkin. every time.
Posted on 24-Sep-06 at 2:17 pm | PermalinkI voted strawberry - it’s an inspired idea - she could hold a big white strawberry flower as well. I hope you’ve got a bag big enough for the booty.
Posted on 25-Sep-06 at 12:41 am | PermalinkFor our baby E’s first Hello ‘o’ween we dressed him as Satan, no half measures in the Bingo Hall.
This year now we have two children one is going as Hitler and one is going as Charles Manson.
Posted on 25-Sep-06 at 9:06 am | PermalinkI always thought fairies ran their society along anarcho-syndicalist collective lines, but ask any little girl - there are fairy princesses. I think they get a crown _and_ wings.
Posted on 25-Sep-06 at 12:52 pm | PermalinkI only voted ’strawberry’ because there was no carrot option. Mmmm… Big, juicy carrot.
Posted on 25-Sep-06 at 3:15 pm | PermalinkA combined 17 votes for foodstuffs so far, compared with a meagre three for supernatural entities. And of those three, only Mikeachim has confessed.
Posted on 25-Sep-06 at 6:21 pm | PermalinkMike: I have too seen The Ring, although I’m not one of those ponces who yarns on about how much better the original Japanese version was, and I think your idea is brilliant, but ahead of its time.
KE / dmts / disgruntled / lilo: strawberry fairy princesses are the way forward, I think. Damn you feminists!
roach: you sound as though you speak from experience. Do you lead a secret double life as a pumpkin? Please say yes.
jimi: it’s going to be a comedown for the lad, going from the Prince of Darkness himself one year to a mere genocidal dictator the next.
lemonsquamish: you’re a sicko.
Posted on 25-Sep-06 at 6:27 pm | PermalinkI vote Durian.
Posted on 26-Sep-06 at 5:33 pm | PermalinkPumpkin - hilarious yet thrifty. Or a mango?
Posted on 26-Sep-06 at 10:48 pm | Permalinki voted pumpkin- but only because i get a rash when i eat strawberries.
Posted on 26-Sep-06 at 11:10 pm | Permalinkedit: Jimi had Ezra trying on a cute pumpkin outfit with matching hat, whilst Seth was modeling a casper the friendly ghost getup. I hope everyone realises his bravado turns to mush when it comes to his lads!!
Don’t get a pumpkin outfit though! First, it’s already been done by Ezra, and I was thinking of an ACTUAL pumpkin when I voted.
Posted on 27-Sep-06 at 12:02 am | PermalinkDid you guess that Jimi was actually me?
Posted on 28-Sep-06 at 7:28 am | PermalinkPumpkin. Definitely. Sorry Kate.
Posted on 29-Sep-06 at 2:11 am | Permalinkno. but a kid as a pumpkin = adorable.
Posted on 13-Oct-06 at 11:04 am | Permalink