I was always a big fan of playing with costumes, but after watching how much fun this kid had, I knew it would be a staple in our house. Last year, after Halloween, I raided the sales to stock up on a few costumes for Leo. I fully intend on doing homemade costumes for Halloween this year, but the store-bought costumes are GREAT for year-round playing!
Last night, we turned on a classic - The Land Before Time. This film is great. Netflix has it on Watch Instantly on your computer so we have turned it on a few times for Leo. I couldn't believe how bad the graphics are compared to the graphics available today!! Sometime last week, I decided to put on The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration (talking about milking a good thing!!). It was terrible! They added songs...really bad ones...Or maybe singing dinosaurs just remind me of Barney. I'm not sure.About half-way through the movie, I remembered that we had a dinosaur costume stashed away upstairs in the costume bag! SCORE!!
The moral of the story is: Everything is funnier with a costume on.
I am going to keep the costume bag within arms reach, and whenever we are having a tough day with Leo, I'll just throw a costume on him, and even his temper tantrums will be hilarious :)
Awww I love the Land Before Time! But yeah... they really outdid it with so many versions of it. I love Petrie and Ducky :)
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if I've mentioned this before, but the best place to get costumes is at thrift stores. Kids only want to be Batman or a Pirate for one year, I guess. We're currently on the lookout for a "Dorthy Gale" costume. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm going to have to check them out! We have some really good thrift stores around here! I'll keep a lookout for Dorothy as well just in case.
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