dual personalities

Halloween has always been a big favorite in my family and when the boys were young I tried hard to be creative the way I thought my mother would be. My first big Halloween costume effort was appropriately for my oldest son’s first trick-or-treat outing. He was three and really into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at the time (We never watched Sesame Street. I’m afraid I found it too boring. But if my boys didn’t know about Big Bird, at least they knew their Renaissance artists).

I made the shell from cardboard, foam and fabric — the rest was pretty easy. You can’t really tell from the picture, but he had a Ninja Turtle belt and shoes. We went all out.

Alas, as is usually the way with such things, the costume succumbed to the boys’ loving attention and within a year it looked like this on the little brother

And for those of you who feel nostalgic about the turtles, there’s good news from lego, which has announced that they are coming out with a line of TMNT:

Cowabunga, indeed!