(disclaimer: this is mega-lame so feel free to hit "mark all as read" on your google reader and move on. really. it's been a crazy week and besides food and mess, this is all i have made.)
i have a son who has taken quite a liking to a spiderman costume we have. he wants to wear it every.single.day!
this is interesting for 2 reasons: 1) he has NO idea who spiderman actually is, (but i guess that's just how effective marketing can be huh?) and 2) it is a full length SYNTHETIC costume and he is a HOT kid (example here). seriously, he sweats on a below-zero night!and so, yesterday, i couldn't bear to see him sweating his way through another day in that costume, so i sold him on the idea of a "summer" spiderman costume...
old t-shirt
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google images
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fabric paint
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a few minutes
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NO MORE SWEATY ALMOST-3 YEAR OLDS!!!
(plus, i really like its subtlety...no look-at-my-over-commercialised-spiderman-top!! win win.)
still not crazy that my son is into spiderman though. groan.
Very cute! I love how kids fixate on clothing items. I have great memories of my little brother being inseparable from a woollen beanie for an entire summer, and a child's construction helmet for an entire winter, much to my mother's dismay! Eventually, I think both hats got 'lost', at which point my little brother turned to nudism to fill the void, so to speak!
ReplyDeletehaha - he's so cute and you are so clever.
ReplyDeleteWe have a tacky spiderman costume (this was two years ago and it's still going! http://www.paisleyjade.com/2008/09/spideys-seamstress.html) that Miss 3 loves to pull out occasionally. Double groan!
I think you did great with this! It's been said many times before but I will say it again, you are very clever.
ReplyDeletewow you are cool.
ReplyDeleteyip been through the spiderman stage...that led to batman...AND it was my most sweaty kid too. what is with THAT!?
He was my most hot and sticky baby to breastfeed and he hates wearing p.js
re: your comment,yes you must visit Boatshed cafe!! coffee oneday maybe? x
ReplyDeleteWe went through the same thing last summer...so funny! Didn't think to make a 'summer' version, he looks so proud of it too....Sadly he has grown out of his...(I'm secretly pleased). xx
ReplyDeleteThis is pure genuis. If only Aesop were a little younger.. he'd never fall for it these days!
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