Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011

Costume shopping: Like a machete hit

Last week, I found myself in Target's Halloween aisle, shopping with my kids for the perfect costume. After 10 minutes, I was about ready to lose my mind.

I had already explained to Laurel several times why I didn't think a costume involving fishnet stockings was appropriate for a 10-year-old and vetoed several others because they were the most expensive on the rack.

And of course, everything that I thought was cute was deemed too babyish by my daughter. When we finally found a costume that we both agreed on, her size was nowhere to be found.

Trevor, in true male fashion, decided in three seconds that he wanted to be a glow-in-the-dark skeleton and had no interest in shopping from that point forward. This of course gave my 8-year-old son plenty of free time to chase his sister through the aisles with a plastic "bloody" machete he found on the rack.

When I confiscated his machete, he put on the scariest mask he could find and decided to entertain himself by frightening unsuspecting shoppers.

I deeply apologize to the kind woman who encountered my son wearing a zombie mask.

After she recovered from her machete "injury," Laurel and I finally agreed on an adorable purple bat costume complete with wings. We even compromised on sparkly orange and purple tights instead of the fishnets.

As we headed to the cashier, I decided that next year we are buying our Halloween costumes online.