The Great Costume Caper

Finding Halloween costumes for one child is fun.

Finding Halloween costumes for two children...not so much.

My Virgo mind wants the kids to coordinate.  If I'd had my way, I would have turned them into cute and dorky Raggedy Ann and Andy.  Sadly, with a strong willed three-year-old, this is one area where I don't get my way.

I tried talking Joseph into being a pirate (how cute would Elizabeth be as a baby pirate?), a cowboy, and a football player.

He wants to be a dragon.

I found his costume at Old Navy.  It's well made, warm and actually very cute.  But then the question arises...what should Elizabeth be?

Joseph suggested fire or a princess.  There's no way I'm dressing my adorable baby as fire for her first Halloween.  As for the princess idea...well...I figure that's what she's going to be for the next sixteen years and that I should pick something different while I still have a say.

I finally settled on a catepillar.  Cute, cuddly and, since I'll be carrying her in a peanut shell "cocoon", easy.  Sure...it doesn't "match" the dragon, but at least it'd be easy.  Right?

Wrong.

I can't find an inexpensive, small catepillar costume to save my life. I've looked in stores and online. I've even looked for patterns, to no avail.

So now, I'm in a bit of a dilemma.  Do I stick with the catepillar idea and try to sew one up without a pattern?  Or do I cave and dress her up as a princess.

Decisions, decisions.

And yes.  I do realize that if our biggest concern right now is Halloween costumes, we're doing pretty well.