Here's our little Hokie Bird in the costume I've been busy making the whole month of October. I've only made a few blankets before, so this required some extra help from my mother-in-law. I learned a lot, but I think I'll stick to blankets. Clothing is tough to sew! Not to mention I was modifying a dinosaur pattern to be the Hokie Bird. We had a lot of rain before trick-or-treating, so the ground was wet, nasty, and even had some mud puddles, which was not good for his big orange feet, but I soaked and scrubbed those today since the felt on the costume (for the feathers and tail) makes it dry clean only. I was amazed that people actually knew who he was, which might have helped because of Mykenzi's costume, but every house we went to and people we saw on the street knew who he was and thought his costume was cool! Only one older lady had trouble, and she asked if he was a scuba diver, but she also mentioned she didn't have her glasses on!
Had to show you the tail!
Is she seriously this big now? I just can't believe how beautiful Mykenzi is, and how awesome she looked in her VT cheerleader outfit. She really loved it! She chanted out of the house, into my studio for pictures, then back out to van, the whole time we heard, "let's go....hokies, let's go....hokies!" Too sweet!
We also further confirmed our suspicions that Mykenzi has a latex or adhesive allergy. We do have the lab order to get her blood work done to check for the latex allergy, which we really need to do this week. At the end of the night, I was taking the Hokie Bird off her face, and everything seemed to be fine, then a few minutes later she came and told me her face was burning. I looked, and there was basically a red imprint of the Hokie Bird on her cheek. We immediately thought about her last reactions to regular band-aids (skin turned red, puffed up, bumpy/blistery), and jumped on the internet to see if the temporary tattoo contained latex. Sure enough, there it is on their website, if you have a latex or adhesive allergy, then you should not use Gameface tattoos. That is not written any where on the package of tattoos, but it is on the VT sticker (surprised that that was just a sticker and not a tattoo) package that it is made of hypoallergenic material. We definitely need to be more careful about these things, but when I researched all things made with latex, temporary tattoos never came up, and we do our best to keep all latex containing items from her (which means no more latex balloons). The big concern for us is that latex allergies are typically developed by people who have had repeated contact with latex containing products (for example, people who have had multiple surgeries and health care workers), so if she's showing signs of having mild reactions to latex now, then if we ignore the possibility of an allergy and continue to expose her to latex, the allergy could become more serious.
Check out our pumpkins. Jonmark, Mykenzi, and Camden all picked out the faces.
Cohen looks so serious sitting in his exersaucer, just waiting to be picked up.
Such a sweet smile!
Cohen looking cute in his VT outfit.
Later this night, Camden was in his room calling for Mykenzi to come play cars with him, but he didn't realize Mykenzi had fallen asleep on the couch. I told him she was asleep, so he came out of his room, and just stood there looking at her. He didn't say anything to us, just stared at her for a few minutes with a sad look on his face. Then he dropped down on the floor and put his face in his hands. He was really bummed that his buddy had fallen asleep on him when he big plans to play with cars, so I scooped him up and took him in his room to play with him. This was quite funny to me because Camden was excited to have me play with him, and I guess I don't play cars enough with him because he felt the need to tell me what to do. He gave me a big truck to play with, and told me, "get cars, c'mon, drive, Mommy." So I followed him, loaded up my truck with a couple of cars, and then he told me what to do next. At one point he pushed a button on his truck that plays music, and every time he did that, we both danced. The 3rd time though he told me, "dat nuff, dat nuff" (that's enough). One time we were driving around on his rug that looks like a road, and he crashed into me, which shocked me, and he said, "I make it better (rubbed my car), dare go." After a while, Jonmark joined us, so I decided to just take a few pictures while all my boys were in the floor together!
Camden was laughing because Jonmark was driving a truck on him.
