It's my lucky day!

If there's one thing I've learned in the past 3 years, it's that shopping early for Halloween costumes is the way to go. Number one, all of the good costumes go quickly and number two, the kids need some time to adjust to wearing the silly things. I would love to be the mom that makes cute costumes for my kids (my mom did). I am sure it would be fun and it would most certainly be less expensive but let's not kid ourselves. I'm lucky to make dinner for my kids on any given night and homemade costumes are just not happening.

Today was our big outing and we have been trying to have the kids think about what they want to be for a couple of weeks now. Last year, Ben was a puppy (a really really cute puppy named Dawson) and Abby was a baby (an odd costume for a 2 year old, I know but it had a lot to do with the fact that if she was a baby she would need a paci and hers had been swept away by the Paci Fairy months earlier). Those costumes were easy and cute so I was hoping for a similar outcome this year. As we were leaving the house, despite my suggestion that they dress as Dora and Diego, they had their minds made up on other things. Ben wanted to be Iron Man (he has no idea who Iron Man is but his new school shoes are Iron Man so obviously he needs a costume to match) and Abby wanted to be B.B. What? you ask. Let me fill you in. This....
is B.B. Abby's most favorite lovey. He (she?) is a bear dressed in a bunny costume (get it B.B. for bunny bear?) that Nana gave her for her first Easter. Over time she has grown to love B.B. so much that she adopted the rest of the family:

They ALL (along with a variety of other pillows, blankets, stuffed animals and baby dolls) sleep in her little toddler bed with her. The mama and the daddy, "Pink the B.B" and "Blue the B.B". (She has two of each because I had an irrational fear when she was younger that we would lose one which would result in me losing sleep, so I rotated them for equal loving, always keeping one hiding in a drawer. Now that she knows there are two and can reach the drawer they are all present at all times.)

So with our ideas in mind, we finished our spaghetti and headed for Target. I was pretty sure that I could find an Iron Man costume (as much as I didn't want to...I have a strong dislike for characters of all kinds) but had no idea what I was going to do about my little girl who had her mind set on being the thing she loves the most. Until.... I walked into Target and saw THIS:

What are the chances, right? She wore it in the store and it is all ready for her to wear as much as she wants tomorrow and for the rest of the month!

In other exciting cute costume news: All of the Iron Man costumes were "too small" (I know, I'm terrible but he is way too cute to be in that ugly thing!) so Ben is all set to save lives and fight fires.

How cute is this?!? It has suspenders and everything! And he just got some new fireman rain boots when he went shopping with Grammy. Perfect, just what he wanted. A costume to match his shoes!