A Strawberry stuck in a Web

Mason knew what he wanted to be for Halloween the moment I brought it up. Black Spider-man. We were in luck since our friends were happy to lend us their costume. He is pictured with his friend Hayden -- The White Rabbit. Mason didn't want to wear his mask to his Halloween party and asked me to paint his face like Spider-Man. He also thought it was super cool to have black hair! For our church trunk-or-treat he wanted to be regular Spider-Man with all the muscles. It was a last minute decision. We were getting ready to leave, and he came downstairs in the red costume. He and Maryn had such a fun night going from trunk to trunk getting way too much candy! His favorite part was seeing all his friends in costumes, and pretending to put webs around them.

Our sweet Maryn wanted to be something even sweeter for Halloween this year.
Strawberry Short Cake. 
After a quick glance at the party city costume magazine
she knew what she was wearing. Not because of the striped tights, cute dress or the massive adorable hat. She wanted to have pink hair. A few weeks before Halloween, I decided to get her costume. We went to three different stores and strawberry shortcake was sold out. We did find her pink hair, but Maryn wasn't satisfied. I had a small panic attack that night after the kids went to bed. 
Maryn didn't have a second favorite, 
and I wasn't going to make her costume. 
My sewing machine was in storage...(my favorite excuse).


 I took flight on the world wide web and searched for and hour.
 So many strawberry shortcake costumes;
 Baby shortcake, sexy shortcake, old school shortcake, shortcake friends, then I found it. "It" was 60 bucks, and I am not that desperate...yet. A few more sites and I found the right, not so over priced one. She loved it the minute it came in the mail. She loved wearing it at all her halloween parties. She kept the hair on all night , during dance, and for trick-or-treating. She only complained when her head itched. 


She loved putting freckles on her nose and cheeks. 
when I took her freckles off for the last time she had a permanent one! A freckle showed up on her nose to stay!
 She loves looking at it and remembering Halloween. 
She wants to be Strawberry Shortcake next year!