11.04.2009

ta-da!

sorry to make you wait so long. i hope the anticipation isn't going to dull the reaction to the actual costume. here's one more clue...it should be pretty obvious by this pic. this is the entire costume assembled and waiting for the bug to don it. (although no shame if you dont get it still, LOTS of people didn't get it in person, even when we were all in our ensembles, which is crushing when you go all out like we did.)

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he was SUSHI! salmon nigiri to be exact. judah is our favorite, so of course we had to make him a costume accordingly and sushi is definitely our favorite meal



judah is the rice nugget under the fish, which is held on by seaweed (which isnt always used, but we needed a belt and extra accoutrement).

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we have known judah was going to be sushi for a long time now. we were thinking we would do the parental thing and let ourselves off the hook for costumes since our kid is way cuter anyway. however, i realized we could make jesse and me full complimentary costumes for $0. so naturally, what goes along with sushi?

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a sushi chef and a bottle of soy sauce! (i am 50% mortified 50% delighted with myself)

jesse's costume: my bathrobe, flip flops, white pants, 2 old t-shirts for his headgear and to make the cleaver our knife sharpener rod thing and duct tape and cardboard

my costume: a red throw pillow, washrag and place mat for the cap and then every piece of brown clothing i own plus some masking tape and safety pins. the only reason i used danielle's wonderful bridesmaid's dress was to capture the outward flare of the bottle...although my birthing hips and ass would have been sufficient i think. i am pretty much naturally shaped like a soy sauce bottle--thick, stocky and bottom heavy.

before you starting thinking this was kind of morbid, us chopping up our child, the knife is only used on the fish, not the rice. the rice is lovingly hand-shaped.


of course we had to go eat sushi afterwards! here's judah looking smoochable with daddy at mr. fuji. plus a 1/16th model of me in my costume on the table.
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HAHAHAHAHA! i told you mommy was hungry! this picture frightens even me; the crazed glint in my eye, the terror on the bug's face. but i am 95% sure i would not eat judah if he was made of real sushi. (should have been more meticulous with the tape on the back side of the sushi...oops)

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total cost of all of our outfits: 60 cents for judahs green fabric. total amount of candy eaten by me and jesse: one fun size bag of swedish fish (1/2 a WW point). plus afterwards we went to the dukes' house and watched tech stomp vandy (eventually) in front of a lovely fire. halloween was a rousing success. and congratulations to mr. nathan phillips for correctly guessing the costume based only the raw materials. he was the only person that got it! 10 points to you!

4 comments:

  1. He's ADORABLE! And nate was totally right :) yay! Y'all are HILARIOUS! I think I've been checking your blog every 5 minutes to see if you got the picts up!!! Congrats on finding all your stuff and for only eating 1/2 ww point on Halloween! You're AMAZING!!! Love ya! Alicia

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  2. Totally worth the wait!!! Oh my gosh, y'all are so creative. These pictures are priceless!

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  3. If I had only one ounce of your creativity! How adorable! Judah is so very handsome!!

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  4. Sooooo awesome! I love it! You are the most creative mommy I know :) One day I'll have an "I read K8" icon on my blog :)

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