AIR and SCARE

My BFF Wendi invited us to go to the Halloween festivities at the Dulles National Air & Space Museum. We'd never been to the museum, and Halloween was sadly underrepresented at our house this year, so we jumped at the chance and dusted off some old costumes.

No really - literally.

Kate went as a bumblebee and Brooklyn went as a ladybug. These were MY old costumes when I was their ages. My mom made them both and I repaired them for a little Halloween reprise. At 2 I was a ladybug and then when I got older, I was a bumblebee and my little sister was the ladybug. And now I have my own little girls to dress the same way! My mom unloaded the costumes during some cleaning out, and my sister mailed them to me along with a picture of the two of us wearing the same costumes. Cute, eh? Um I really wish I could post that picture here but I can't find it just now. Sorry. Maybe later.

Brooklyn is trying to show off her antennae

But anyway... that was as far as I got in the costume department a week before Halloween. The rest of us did eventually have costumes, but not in time for the museum excursion. It was okay though - they gave us lots of candy anyway! Stay tuned for the costume update.

Wendi was dressed as a road sign (get it? She's pregnant. I know it's hard to tell because she's so ridiculously skinny) and her son Carter is a Redskins player. Complete with a football in his mouth.

The theme of the night was Star Wars, and they had these "photo opportunities" strategically placed throughout the museum.Wendi told me that these people get really into their Star Wars hobby and spend thousands of dollars on these costumes - er, uniforms? So these are not just friendly museum workers... they are serious nerds.
This guy SERIOUSLY freaked out most of the little kids (and okay, some adults too). He is even wearing a speaker around his neck that changed his voice. Brave little Carter ventured the closest.

We didn't want to wait in the long line to get our picture taken with R2D2, so... here are someone else's kids with R2D2. (They were costumed more suitably for the photo anyway.)

Thanks for the fun night, Wendi & Carter!