Mikey!

The costume of choice this year was her favorite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle - Michelangelo (or Mikey).  For most of the month she kept saying she wanted to be a unicorn again.  It wasn't until the middle of the week before our first Halloween activity (Saturday before Halloween) that she changed her mind and I had to scramble a bit.   

I had seen the roasting pan shell on Pinterest and thought that would be good with a green sweatshirt and pants.  Unfortunately, you can't find those ANYWHERE!!!  I figured we could just use her t-shirt instead and find green tights or leggings or something.  NOPE. NOWHERE!  The night of the Russellville community party (small town near us) I scoured her clothes and found the green soccer socks and a green pair of shorts.  Nothing really matches, but it's still cute!

We found great material that morning at Walmart for her mask, but it frayed very easily.  I didn't have time to get out the sewing machine and fight it, so I just hot glued the edges.  It was a very sloppy job, but it worked well in a pinch.

She entered the "character" costume contest and took 10th place.  Not bad considering there were like 25 kids in this category (some categories only had 10 or less kids).  She was pleased.

We then took off the shell, had some dinner and played games for the rest of the evening.  It was a very fun event and all three of us had fun.