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Halloween

We love Halloween, finding cute costumes, making costumes, and trying to photograph our kids looking all cute!

Take a pumpkin picture

October 17, 2011

Your 42nd weekly challenge is a seasonal photo assignment. You can’t take a bad picture in a pumpkin patch. Good assignment, right? Find a pumpkin patch. Go. Take pictures. Use hay as a background, too.   If you do this, we would LOVE to see your photos on our rookiemoms facebook page. Is your baby [...]

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You’ll totally wear that again: Laura Ingalls costume

October 12, 2011

I was a big Little House fan as a girl, and since I know that my online friend Molly lives on a farm and homeschools her daughters, I fantasize that her house is located in the year 1880. Clearly she’s not actually living in the past, because when I asked Molly to suggest a Halloween [...]

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We love Halloween, finding cute costumes, making costumes, and trying to photograph our kids looking all cute!

You’ll totally wear that again: Cowgirl costume

October 6, 2011

My super special guest today is Dottie from Modern Kiddo! I asked for Halloween costume ideas that were based around items that can be used again and again. Dottie told me she was inspired by some charming Livie and Luca western boots and I can see why. Sources for these adorable finds, all of which [...]

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You’ll totally wear that again: prom dress becomes princess dress

October 4, 2011

My bloggy friend Carrie, the creative supermom behind This Mama Makes Stuff, posted this eco-amazing hack on her blog a few weeks ago: convert thrift store 80s prom dresses into princess dresses for your little fantasy lover. I always hit my children’s resale shops at the beginning of October and again after Halloween to keep [...]

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We love Halloween, finding cute costumes, making costumes, and trying to photograph our kids looking all cute!

Inside our closet: What’s in my kids’ dress-up boxes

September 20, 2011

Today I thought I’d post pictures of what’s in my children’s costume stash. To say that our dress-up boxes overfloweth would be an understatement. But in my house, this stuff gets a lot of use. Some of the pieces are versatile and some are, well, just an astronaut helmet. First, the headwear collection. Wizard hats [...]

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You’ll totally wear that again: 5 Halloween investments that will last more than one night

September 15, 2011

In the coming weeks, I’m going to run a “You’ll totally wear that again” Halloween series where we show specific costume ideas that can be assembled from items that will be useful in your child’s wardrobe through November and beyond. These sleep and play jammies from Carters.com (above, $16.50) are perfect for the baby who [...]

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We love Halloween, finding cute costumes, making costumes, and trying to photograph our kids looking all cute!

6 amazing homemade Halloween costumes for kids

September 6, 2011

Handmade Halloween costumes for babies are my weakness. Some girls like diamonds or Coach bags. Whatever. From etsy, this incredible Max suit for lovers of Where the Wild Things Are, is made by katesy. This DIY owl knocks my socks off. I love the fabrics in the feathers.  Instructions on Alphamom. You know I have [...]

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Parenting trend: skulls for the soft-skulled crowd?

August 31, 2011

What do you guys think? Love or shove the skull-and-crossbone trend on babies? On one hand, I get that it has a punk rock flavor and appreciate the irony of an edgy, yet toothless, human being. On the other hand, something about the association this symbol has with death just weirds me out. In the [...]

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We love Halloween, finding cute costumes, making costumes, and trying to photograph our kids looking all cute!

Halloween lessons from *Using Our Words*

November 2, 2010

We met Amy Heinz at BlogHer and I started following her on Twitter. When the conversation turned to costumes, I asked her to share her Halloween story here. Amy blogs at Using Our Words and during the daylight hours, she works in Marketing at Yahoo! When my first son, “Big”, was about a year old, [...]

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Our first happy Halloween

November 1, 2010

Finally. The convergence of low expectations and my children’s age and understanding. We had a fun time over the weekend. Our first Halloween sucked. I tried to force Holden into a chili pepper costume. He cried. I tried to rally him to be in a stroller so I could trick-or-treat with my friends, show him [...]

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We love Halloween, finding cute costumes, making costumes, and trying to photograph our kids looking all cute!

Halloween cuteness

October 27, 2010

This is my favorite format of a Mom’s Group picture, so I am reposting it from last year. If you have the chance to imitate it, please do! I saw this photo on the Facebook page of a former co-worker and he gave me permission to publish. Thanks, Rookie Dad Eric!

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Swaddles and buntings: Baby Halloween costumes that bind

October 19, 2010

What’s totally cute for a blobby baby that cannot crawl away from you? A swaddled up costume, of course! If your baby’s best trick is not rolling over on the floor, please consider these flipping adorable costume choices for kids who will likely sleep their way through Halloween. If, however, you hope to carry your [...]

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