"One Little, Two Little, Three Little Indians"

(Okay, okay this post is long overdue... Story of my life ;)

So, I have never been a huge Halloween fan, but the last few years I have been slowly learning to become one. It all started when we were living with our dear friend AJ. We lived with him for two Halloweens and he was a movie guy so both of these holidays included movies. One year, we ordered  the movie Scream 5 from On Demand.... Yes, everything about that statement seems so wrong. Ordering a $5 movie on your TV and having said $5 movie be one of the Scream movies.... I am a tad bit ashamed to admit it, but hey! It made for a great memory.

The next year we watched the movie of all movies. Troll 2. We still laugh about this. It is absolutely the worst movie ever made, but the sheer "badness" of it makes it pretty entertaining. There isn't even a Troll 1. There is never a troll in the movie, only goblins. The graphics are terrible and the acting is the worst! It's all so bad! It's a great (non-family) halloween movie, however (if you wanna laugh). There was even a documentary made by the star of the movie called Best Worst Movie.. If you so desire, check out the amazingness of Troll 2 here.

We now live on Halloween street in our town. People go all out. Leave work early or even take the day off to decorate. This year I walked down the street and talked to some of the people who were out decorating, one lady said she bought 3500 pieces of candy and that the rest of the neighbors and her had been talking and said that would not be enough because of the nice weather! Wild!! Luckily, we live at the end of the street and this Halloween we only handed out candy to just over 60 kids...

Here's a pic from one of the houses that night.. It is dark, but gives you an idea of how many people were out.. PS this was taken around 8:45pm!

So like I said, I am slowly becoming a Halloween person. Having a daughter now is an even bigger incentive to get more into the spooky spirit (I even "decorated")

Avery Jane was just over 6 months for her first Halloween. She's not even sitting up without some assistance or her Bumbo (we have this one), so naturally she needed to wear a costume. It was really a no brainer what we chose to have her dress up as. She of course took after her momma and dressed up as little Indian baby.

She already had this pair of amazing moccasins that helped inspire the costume. For the rest of the costume, I decided to go simple and just make a tutu and a feather headband to go with the moccasins. Both items were super easy to make.

For the tutu, I just used some elastic that I measured around her waist (minus an inch or so) and sewed the ends together and then knotted the tulle around it. (I bought tulle by the yard – 1/8 of a yard in each color – because I knew I would not need as much as what comes on a roll. I cut it in strips and loop knotted to the elastic band.)

For the headband, I just used a brown baby headband and hot glued a strip of brown felt to it, hot glued the feathers onto that piece of felt and then glued another piece of felt over the top of the bottom of the feathers. Vioala! Avery Jane had a costume (that she wore for approximately 20 minutes). Our cute little indian girl :)