Our Journey to Carson

Halloween Should Be MIGHTY Interesting This Year...

When Meggie was young, dress-up was her favorite thing to do. If she couldn't find a dance costume that suited her mood, she would get out a paper bag, construction paper, scissors, and tape and create something unique. (You think I'm kidding??) I honestly thought dress-up was just a girl thing. Clearly, I was wrong.

When Carson came home from China, he was digging through his new toys and found a Superman action figure, complete with cape. Carson immediately thought he was cool and Superman took the ultimate place of honor...he became a favorite bathtub toy.

Carson has always been obsessed (to put it mildly) with Ultraman. Since Ultraman is hard to find in the U.S., we tried to substitute Power Rangers. With their helmets and jumpsuits, they looked as close to Ultraman as anything we could think of. He was fooled for a while...and was thrilled that the costume Aunt Debbie gave him for Christmas came with a toy gun!
Carson soon discovered Spiderman and decided he looked more like Ultraman than the Power Rangers did. When he started preschool, the boys told him about Spiderman...and his obsession transferred. His AFOs became his "Spiderman boots" and the wrist splints he wears to bed suddenly became web-shooters. He also began his habit of walking two steps and jumping into his Spiderman stance, like this:
Then the Backyardigans (one of his favorite shows) went on a pirate ship adventure, and he became fascinated with pirates. Luckily, Pirates of the Caribbean had a McDonald's promotion right about that time and Carson got pirate scarves in his Happy Meals:
In the mess that Carson's toys have become, he couldn't find the pirate scarves one night last week, so he asked me to make him into a pirate. In the stress of trying to finish my last project for school, I hurriedly ripped a piece of paper and put it over his eye with the help of a rubber band. He grabbed a funnel from his rice activity box and we had a pirate, complete with eye patch and "Hook" hand:
When we bought Carson a DVD with the original Batman cartoon episodes on it, he gave Spiderman a break and decided that Batman is the coolest thing ever! Last Friday, Daddy was at Target and found this get-up:He wants to wear that thing EVERYWHERE!! Daddy let him wear the mask to the grocery store on Saturday -- needless to say, they got a bit of attention for it -- but we had to draw the line at letting him wear it to Church on Sunday.

So now we have a dilemma...what is Carson going to be for Halloween?

If anyone happens to run across an UltraBatSuperSpiderPowerPirate costume, PLEASE let me know!