oliver week: costume day

It's kind of crazy how much I haven't blogged in the last year and how much story there is to tell about this family of mine.

Last year when I had all three boys home with me their costume making ideas got so out of hand I finally had to tell the boys that we would have to have one costume day a week.  That day ended up being Monday.  Every Monday I would make another ghetto costume for my boys to keep them busy for a half of a day (let's face it, these costumes weren't made to last).  Most of the time I was too lazy/busy with baby to get out the sewing machine so we used a lot of hot glue and tying random things together.

Like the day they were spiders:

 and I made them color the plates black to keep them busy while I tore strips of black fabric and tied them together with fishing line.  Elastic around the hands to pull up the spider arms. A strip of fabric (I think) around the neck to keep it all on.  How is that for a TUTORIAL!  ha ha... that is how we do costumes around here.  G-H-E-T-T-O.

Max wanted to be scary. (so scary huh?)

Oliver wanted to be a nice spider.

I think I will do more costume day later today.  It's kind of crazy to look back at these pictures and see how unfinished our house was!  We didn't even have couches yet!

**Welcome to Oliver Week:  Where you get all Oliver -- olive-the-time. (and a little bit of max today)