Costume

I am really finishing this at the wire but William's costume is done.  He modeled it for me this afternoon when I finalized his tail.  His tail you ask?  Well let me show you.

That's right, William is the Cat in the Hat.  The inspiration for this is the fact that we have Thing 1, Thing 2, and Thing 3 shirts that fit the three younger kids and then I found a tutorial for the hat here.  So I made the hat out of felt, we got a black sweatshirt and sweatpants, I sewed some white felt on the tummy and Brandon drew a tie for me on red felt, and then I made the tail.  I had the tail done for a while but wasn't sure how to attach it.  I finally made a stretchy belt, sewed it to it, and added multiple buttonholes.  So the pants can be worn for other things and the tail can be used for more dress up later.  And William can take his tail off at school if he doesn't want to sit with it and I don't have to send other pants with him.  Caitlyn and Britton have red pants to go with their shirts and Brandon is really excited about the blue hairspray he found.  William wanted Bradley to be the fish, but I pretty much said that I needed the simplest thing possible and that is Thing 3.  I don't know that you will be seeing pictures of the Things until after Halloween.