Happy Hopping

Frog and Pumpkin

Hop Phoebe Phrog

 

Crawling Pumpkin

P wanted to be a Frog this year, I love that she didn't choose to be a princess or fairy or something full on girl, I love that she picked to be a green hopping frog- so much more her style!  This costume was easy to put together; a few years ago I picked up this green suit and a green sweatshirt from the thrift store with hope that it would make its way into a costume of sorts.  The green suit has been part of the dress up closet ever since, but this year P found inspiration in it, she wanted to be a frog because we had this suit already! (so thrifty!)  I found the green XL sweatshirt that had been in my sewing stash and went to work.  It was so easy; I cut the hood off and gave it a jagged edge (Kermit the frog style) and glued on the eyes (which we had more balls left over from last years costume), then cut the end of the sleeves of for the hands, utilizing the cuff, and cut the feet from the bottom edge of the sweatshirt and put a little elastic at the back so they can be pulled on over shoes and voila!  A frog. 

J's costume has a shorter tale; he was a pumpkin because someone gave us this pumpkin costume, and he didn't know what he wanted to be.  One of his favorite words is 'D'oh' so we thought maybe he wanted to be Homer Simpson, but the pumpkin was just so cute. 

We made a loop around the neighborhood to see our favorite peeps.  It was a sweet night continuing our simple tradition.