My son is being a pumpkin (lame,I know) because I got his costume way before he was even born. I have a thing for pumpkins and this is, like, my dream!

We want our daughter to be a mummy! (A CUTE one, of course!) She’ll most likely be walking by Halloween and how cute would she be @ 11 months toddling around in a mummy costume!! Now the hard part is finding one - or (gasp!) making it.

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I’ve got two choices, depending on what fits and the weather that day. There is a local Halloween parade…

Either Dorothy of Oz, if the dress from her birthday still fits - I just need ruby slippers…

Or

A Princess. (I bought a dress at a yard sale.

my niece says she will be Abby Cadabby.
And I will wear a witch hat to work.

And I will be trying to coerce my friend to dress her newborn in that banana costume!

Well, crap. I was looking high and low for an original, off the beaten path costume for my 10 month old, but you featured three of my four choices here! Now everyone’s gonna be all , “Wanted to be like Swistle, huh?”.

(Which is fine.)

You could totally make up this tragedy to me by giving me a gift card to get him a unique costume and then NOT featuring anymore.

My husband has gotten it into our 2yo son’s head that he should be speed racer. Not sure how we’ll pull that one off!!

My 2 year old daughter will be a bumble bee. Grandma bought the costume - it is SO cute, little skirt with tulle that puffs it all up.

My daughter, 4, will be dressing up as, surprise, surprise…a princess. Seems like that’s all she talks about! The baby, 1, is going to wear a chicken costume from Old Navy. We tried it on him last night, and hoo boy did we laugh. Hilarious!

That tulip fairy is too cute!

My 5 month old son will be a pumpkin (cute), my 2 year old son will be a dragon (cute) and my 5 year old daughter wants to be a bride (gag). We’re still negotiating with the 5 year old.

My parents thought Halloween was “of the devil,” so I wasn’t allowed to have a costume or go trick-or-treating as a kid. We would go to church instead and have a fall party. (Lame!)

We were, though, allowed to hand out candy (along with religious tracts!) to kids who came to our door trick-or-treating. When I was 8 or so, I got around the no-costumes rule by answering the door dressed up in things I found around the house. I think the best one was “Not a Morning Person:” I donned my mom’s bathrobe, put curlers in my hair, painted bags under my eyes with grey shadow, and clutched a coffee cup.

So now that I’m free to celebrate Halloween AND I have an adorable 10 month old son, I feel like he ought to get a costume, but I haven’t thought of anything yet!

My almost three year old daughter is going to be a doctor. I ordered a real stethoscope from Amazon.com which should get here today or tomorrow and we’re still looking for a doctor’s coat. When I was in the hospital after delivering our second daughter, she played my doctor. http://garcialounge.com/blog2/?p=192

We purchased some Gymboree pjs off of eBay so that our 5 month old will be her patient. They are skeleton pjs that glow in the dark! I can’t wait to see the girls dressed up! http://www.gymboree.com/shop/dept_item.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524445975683&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374306240682&bmUID=1222782187811&productSizeSelected=0

My two year old will be dressing up as Peter Pan this year!

I very much wanted to dress up my 4 mo. old niece as a banana.

Maggie is the sock monkey! Yeahhhh, she made your cool list!

Go see, go see!!!

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Is it bad that i start planning for Halloween in July but, put off any Christmas planning until mid December?
This year the girl has decided she wants to choose her own costume (darn 3 year olds!) so I don’t get much say, she has narrowed it down to a “spotted kitty” or princess Belle =o\

When I was little I wanted to be anything but a witch, since my parents didn’t have any money, but they did have a witch costume. So I was a witch for 4 halloweens. 4!!

The Bug will be dressed as a dragon, once again. Luckily that is what he wants.

My kids will be a princess and a knight- DS has been wearing his knight costume ALOT since hubby bought it a few weeks ago.

A pirate!

My 2.5 year old is going to be a bumble bee, and her 6 mo. old little sister is going to be a flower. I’m so excited for Halloween with two cute little monsters this year! =)

I SO wanted to be a mermaid for Halloween when I was in the 2nd grad and my mermaid obsession was full blown. I could not convince my parents that hauling me around in a red wagon (so I could be authentic! No walking for mermaids) sounded like a good idea.

My daughter and I went out this weekend and bought her Halloween costume. She’s going to be a butterfly/fairy… thing. Who cares what it is, tutu + wings = cute!!

When I was younger, I always dressed up as a witch. Now that I’m an adult and can really be WHATEVER I want–I’m still stuck on the witch costume! I guess I’m not that creative!

My best Halloween costume as a child was an elephant that I made out of a paper bag. I spent the entire 2nd grade checking out library books on elephants so that it would be just right.

The kid’s going to be a frickin’ unicorn. Sheesh.

I have three boys ages 8,5, and 2 years old. I have NO CLUE what my eldest & youngest will be dressing up as. My middle child has expressed interest in being a policeman this year.

My four year old selected a Jeff Gordon (NASCAR driver) costume this year. It’s a cheap looking jumpsuit, but he looks adorable in it, and he has been wearing it every day since we bought it. His cutest costume ever was a fleece dalmation costume that he wore when he was one- totally unbearable cuteness!

My son will wear the dog costume my daughter wore last year. My daughter will be a “princess” -type lameness, wearing the Target princess dress my mom got her for her birthday that she has worn to church every single Sunday since July.

Ohh…my 9 month old is going to be a turtle. Which maybe sounds kinda boring, except he’s new to CRAWLING. So….FUN, yes?

The Boy going to be a monkey for Halloween. I found a great costume at old navy that has a banana in a pocket on the leg of the costume. Too cute.

He also became a pumpkin for an autumn party we throw every year. We had a baby pumpkin patch.

I am working on making my son a “royal knight” costume. I hope it turns out OK. It’s a cute idea, and he liked it too. Plus, it involved a play sword. What 2 year old boy could say no?

My girlie will be a princess and my boy, well, he wants to be a storm trooper so that “he can have a storm trooper gun.” I’m not sure exactly how that’s going to work out.

The then 16 mo old will be a cute as can be witch (children’s place costume- a black and tulle dress- got it at the thriftstore ages ago!).

I cannot wait to scrapbook her photo and my photo from when I was 2 (hint: the one in the vintage plastic dress clutching pumpkin bucket scowling at the camera = me!)

I will be dressing up as Wonder Woman and my pup will be dressed as a cow. If I can get her to stay still long enough for me to get the costume on her.

My 1 year old son will be a dragon since I have a fuzzy dragon suit. My daughter wants to be Gabriella from High School Musical. I want to dress us all up characters from Word Girl! My husband even has a lab coat - perfect for Dr. 2 Brains.

I always wanted to be an oompa loompa…

Both boys want to be firemen. For the older one, that’s great, he was one last year. For the younger…well, we’ll be shopping!

My daughter is going to be a chick (as in, a wee baby chicken) and my son wants to be a golfer. *sigh* How do you even dress someone up as a golfer? Khaki pants and a polo shirt? Boring!!

Those baby costumes are SO CUTE. The strawberry fairy is particularly precious.

I’m really really hoping to find a cheap princess costume for my 2 year old daughter. If that doesn’t work out, I will be looking for a “Monster’s Inc” costume (which is what I would actually prefer, since I can’t stand the whole “pretty pretty princess” phase!).

I’m pregnant with my first but we’re dressing my dog (a vizsla) up as a Dalmatian. Don’t ask, it was my husband’s idea, but he’s so excited, I couldn’t stamp on his fun. We’re going to a dog park/Halloween event.

My 3 year old son will be a pirate. The costume has already paid for itself since he’s worn it numerous times since his pirate birthday party!

I’m going to be Amelia Peabody Emerson, heroine of archeological/crime/spy fiction. She’s a Victorian adventuress, with Turkish trousers and a parasol! …I have to buy the Turkish trousers and the parasol still, but at least I already have the pith helmet.

I have a 3 1/2 year old Spiderman (with muscles) and a 1 1/2 year old Chicken. I have this great cowboy hat that I like to use Halloween as an excuse to wear! Hmmm, maybe I should make Halloween the excuse to buy a cute pair of boots to go with it!

My daughter is going to be a chili pepper for Halloween this year. We’ll be flying that day, so my husband wants to dress her up for the flight in hopes that people will be overwhelmed by her cuteness and buy us the drinks that we’ll need for flying cross-country with an infant.

I need these, i am not sure what I need them for but I need them. My son will be a firefighter for Halloween, due to the current obsession, we already own everything that is required.

Home-made bat (worn for the 3rd year in a row) and wolf.

Pick me!

OMG Sarcy, we could have grown up together! Now I love Halloween, it’s like forbidden fruit. 5 yr old changes her mind ALL THE TIME so we’re still trying to figure that one out. 3.5 yr old has to be a mermaid. I’m not sure how that works but there’s sure ot be an Ariel costume out there somewhere. Lucky me has a brand new baby so I get to do something super cute. All I know at this point is that it WON’T be a pea pod or pumpkin!

I work at a children’s museum and we have to wear *non-scary* costumes so as not to scare the kiddos when they come for the Halloween party.

So I am wearing a white blouse, one of Husband’s red ties, and my college graduation robe to be…

…Hermione from the Harry Potter books! Woo hoo!

My son will be dressing up as an almost three year old.

Le deep (Australian, non festive) sigh.

Plans are to dress the black cat as a bee and the orange cat as a pumpkin. We’re going to make a stem out of an old sock and strap it to his head.

At seven and a half months pregnant, I’m considering dressing as a house.

A five year old pimp - that’s hilarious! An old lady accused me of dressing as a hooker when I was in 5th grade - I thought I was a punk rocker but had no idea what a hooker was. I couldn’t understand why she wouldn’t give me any candy!

My beautiful nieces will be some kind of character from High School Musical (gag) and a lobster, respectively. The lobster should be adorable, since she’s just now crawling…

I’m thinking of having my 20 month old be a monkey again this year. Actually, that sock money looks pretty darn cute, might be a little hot for FL weather but as long as he is cute who cares if he passes out! (I kid, I joke.)

My daughter who is turning one a few days before Halloween is going to be a baby penguin, and I am planning on of ourse matching her in a giant penguin suit. They’re my favorite animal and she loves them too…always wanting to play with all my penguin things. Plus its a great concealer for me since I am about to have a second girl on Thanksgiving! My husband will probably be Jack Sparrow so we dont have to buy a new costume for him… and he wouldn’t be a penguin, or fit into one… lol

The original plan was to dress my 1-year-old son, Elliott, up as E.T., but I have had NO LUCK finding an E.T. costume. So Plan B is to dress him up as his most common nickname: Jellybean!

I’m going to dress up as a girl excited about being in New Orleans. Because I’m going to New Orleans for Halloween!

My 4 year old is going as Sleeping Beauty. just like last year. She’s not very original. She was a pumpkin for 3 years before that (I know the math doesn’t work out, but she’s almost 5)

My MIL bought my 2 year old a Cinderella costume, but I’m giving her a choice to wear it or just keep it as a dressup outfit. I think she wants to go as Elmo.

DUDE. The Dr. Baby costume is TOO MUCH. Teh cute!!

My son wants to be “Heatblast” - an alien from the Ben 10 universe which is our whole world these days. But I have a feeling he is going to have to settle for a Power Ranger or a Storm Trooper.

And the 7… no, 8-month-old by Halloween (!)… is going to be a handed-me-down Jester girl. Economy! Unless… a gift certificate…. Pick me!

Okay, my 2 1/2 year old is obsessed with “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown”. OBSESSED. For the last year, anytime we see anything resembling a pumkin, he starts to go “whooooooooo” (imitating the sound the “great pumpkin” makes)

So we plan on dressing him as Charlie Brown, and our 1 1/2 year old son as Snoopy.

I also plan to respond to all questions on Halloween (including those from my husband) with “wah wah wha wu wha wa” like all the grown ups do on Peanuts.

Elvis, Spiderman, and a skunk

My daughter had wanted to be Uniqua from the Backyardigans because we found the costume at a consignment sale, but now she’s waffling. My son is going to be a lion or a rabbit, when he decides too.

I have a 6 yr old Monkey (unless she changes it to a Disney Princess, which is likely) and a 3 year old spiderman. I know that once he puts on that costume, he will never, ever take it off.

My 18 year old will most likely go as herself to some sort of college party that I don’t want to know about, my 15 year old is deciding if she’s too old to go (although she is only 4′9″ she thinks she can get away with it) and my 11 year old girl wants to go trick or treating dressed as a boy.
I think I have it easy this year!

I have a handful of grands this year,,lol,billy wants to be a ninja again,kolby is a power ranger,charlize mae is a pepper(so cute..),
rj is a hunter,and i am not quite sure about summer yet! I get bogged down in costume hunting as well! Everything is just soooooo cute..i love it..enter me please….

I wanted with all my heart to be Rainbow Brite for Halloween when I was 7, But my grandma said the costume was too complicated to make. I got to be Tinkerbell instead, and to this day, it’s one of my favorite costumes.

My 18 month old son is wearing a Charlie Brown tshirt during the day (is lacking hair) and a dinosaur (with very cool head attachment) in the evening (for an estimated 5 seconds before he decides he doesn’t like it!). Thanks for the giveaway!

I kind of want to be an American Gladiator.

We’re doing a whole nautical theme at work. I’ve narrowed it down to either Sean Connery in Hunt for Red October or Aquaman.

Thomas is going to be a robot, because it’s the only thing I can think of that I can make fairly easily, doesn’t need a hat thingy to make it obvious what he is, and he won’t be too hot in a heavy costume. The end of October is often still pretty warm around here, and all the costumes in stores are so fleecy and winter-esque.

I wanted my kids to be Little Bo Peep (3 year old girl) and sheep (twin boys) but the three year old nixed it. She wanted to be a white princess!!

So she is going to be a white princess, the boys are going to be baby pirates and my husband is going to be the Man in Black from Princess Bride. Me? Nursing said twins and it’s a wonder I even put my shirt on during the day so no costume for me this year.

7 year old wants to be: a vampire, or Chewbacca. Hmm…how about a Vampire Chewbacca?

I don’t have kids yet, but I’m trying to find my dog a a little jacket that says “SECURITY” across the back. As he is a 7lb pomeranian, my husband and I find the idea hilarious!

I am dressing my 3 yr old as snow white. My 4 year old is begging beging begging to be Optimus Prime (from transformers) so he probably will get it. If not then a firefighter.

My Husband will be the Joker (new version)
My son will be Batman
I am undecided… continue the theme with Bat Girl/Poison Ivy? (We will be going to church so I need to be somewhat conservative)

We will see…

Oh! I am kilt by cuteness!

I am loving LOVING the sock monkey costume. I am not even going to show my husband this because I already decided the baby will be Bamm Bamm Rubble.

But my eldest? The jury is still out.

My four year old wants to be Luke Skywalker but now I have to see if that Darth Vadar cutie comes in his size!

My six year old can’t decide. He might be a green Power Ranger (using last year’s costume), but he thinks it would be cool to be a policeman, too. Or an astronaut. Or, maybe, the alter-ego he created this summer …. FireBall Boy! Which consists of a white tee shirt on which he’s scrawled a giant “F” in fabric marker pens, and drawn flames all over, and a wacky orange and red tie-dye bandanna.

I’m voting for Fireball Boy.

My daughter is 3 and loves The Little Einsteins. She will be Rocket for Halloween. Rocket’s headlights even light up!

My son Dominic is 11 months and will be a greaser. Slick back hair with a big curl in front, leather jacket, white tee shirt and blue jeans!

I will be a witch, with my long black coat and pointy hat.

My daughter will be costumed as our new kitten…black and white splotches and a pink nose.

My son is 4, and he liked Halloween last year, but he has no interest in choosing a costume (yet). So it looks like I get one more year to play dress up with him.

My daughter is 6 months, and a friend kindly gave us a ton of used clothes, including an adorable bunny suit that I think was for Easter. But hey, instant costume!

I don’t know yet what my son is going to be. And it’s October 1st! OMG, does that make me a bad mother?
I imagine he’ll be some character from Star Wars, though, knowing our household.

I think my 3-month old is going to be stuffed into the chili pepper costume my sister handed down after being used on her 3 babies…unless I find something fabulous on a clearance rack a little closer to the 31st!

The baby is going to be dressed as a monkey and my husband is going as an organ grinder. I think I am going to be a gypsy.

One will be dog, because that’s his ONLY WORD. The other will probably be batman, which is really anti-climatic because the costume is just pajamas he wears all the time anyhow. But that’s what he WANTS, so I’m taking the easy way guilt-free this time.

My 21-month-old is dressing as a pirate. ARRRR!

his year my son’ll be a rooster during the day and a hamburger (he’s the meat!) at night. And then the next day he’ll dress up as an alien for his birthday party. And I also saw a turkey costume I want to get on sale post-Halloween and have him wear it (and lay on the table!) at Thanksgiving. (In my costume-crazed defense, his birthday is Halloween so we go a little overboad…)

This year, my nearly two year old will be dressed as himself. Shockingly original, I know, but last year will be hard to top. He really looked like Harry Truman last year so the costume pretty much made itself. No one got it right away, but there was lots of “holy crap, you’re right!” after we told them.

One of my bunnies will be going as a witch. The other will be going as one of the Founding Fathers (he looks like several of them…). And by “going,” I mean, “hanging out in the living room eating.”

my daughter wants to be a mouse. she’s 14. i don’t exactly know how (or why) she plans to pull that off.

My daughter will be either a pink bunny or a ladybug. Her choice as we have both costumes (that I got on Craigslist). I may have to be a pumpkin. Just put an orange shirt over this 8-month preggo belly and there you go!

My kids are tigers. As usual. Only want to be tigers. Ever. *yawn*.

my boys (4 & 2) want to be fireman this year but none of the stores near us have costumes! The boys love to dress up and wear hats so I figure the costumes will get lots of action after Halloween is over….I am now looking online.

My 2-year old girl is going to be a bee. Cutest costume at Marshalls complete with tulle skirt, built-in striped leotard, wings, and deely-boppers for her head. Cuter than you can imagine.
I will NOT dress up. After three years of having to wear the same dang pumpkin costume in elementary school, I think I’m permanently and tragically scarred.

My ten year old daughter has decided that she is too old to dress up.

My son is 5 and will be Batman. I wanted to find an old Batman costume (Blue and gray) but he fell in love with the black muscle one at Wal-Mart. Oh well.

I’m going to be a cat.

Oooh My oldest will be some sort of scary ghost ninja and my four year old is going to be a pumpkin. They picked out those costumes themselves and I just died cause they totally match their personalities. Well in some weird way anyway. My 2 year old will be an elephant because he finds pretty much everything else scary and I already have that costume. I still dont have one for the baby but I would totally love that whoopie cushion!

a bumblebee

My mom made a pumpkin, Rainbow Brite and unicorn costume for my daughter when she was younger. I will have to rely on Amazon for my granddaughter. ;(

My 3-yr-old girl is going to be a mermaid. I still need to sew it. (OMG)

Can’t decide for my 9-mth-old girl. Do I do a co-ordinating costume, like a fish or octopus or lobster? Or do I do something original for her, like a cute monster I saw at BabiesRUs? Dilemma!

My son is going to be an elephant. Still need to buy felt and make and attach ears and a tail, but it is at least partially complete. My daughter is going to be super girl. I have most of the pieces of her costume, but just realized I need red tights and some type of gold belt. I have black cat ears and a lot of black clothing!

My daughter (7mos) will be a lamb…the cutest lamb ever. We tried the costume on her and just could not stop laughing. The best is that she doesn’t even realize she’s in a costume so she goes about her business as if having hoofs and ears are normal. Too cute!

I miss the days of making Halloween costumes for my kids. They are older now but my daughter, 14, is still dressing up. She wants to go as River Tam from Firefly/Serenity. She just needs to decide which outfit to do.

My son is now in college but is one of those kids who makes elaborate costumes for anime conventions, so he’s very into cosplay. He’s got a costume already made for Halloween (for parties, not trick or treating) — Sol Badguy, from the Guilty Gear videogame.

My five year old wants to be Batman - AGAIN! My almost eight year old hasn’t decided yet - hence the gift certificates would come in handy!

We’re leaning towards Princess Leia for our 10 mo old. :>

my3 year old and 5 year old will be hot wheels race car drivers this year, and my 21 month old is going to be a chicken.

I only waited so long to HAVE this baby so that she could be a cow for Halloween! She will be a cow until she tells me something like, “Mom. I want to be a Princess this year.” And then? We will have a discussion about originality (while shopping for a tiara).

OMG! This is why I stay away from the costume section. I LOVE the banana idea… not quite enough to have another baby (or six) though.

This year, Mister Man is going to be Spiderman — I almost had him talked into a baseball player (read: cheap) but no go. And Little Miss is going to be Tinkerbell — gotta love those Disney dressup costumes, right?

My favorite costume was when my Gram made me a French clown once. I can’t think of what they’re called now…. M something.

I found a stuffed horse with sort of suspenders that my 3 yr old daughter will “wear” as if she is riding the horse–bought her a red cowgirl hat and will be cruising bargains for some boots. She is all about animals so to avoid the princess mania, this is a good animal/girl compromise!

About 10, I wanted to be a nun, but my parents thought that our neighbours (a nun and priest who met and then left the ‘hood to wed) would be offended.

The kids I babysit haven’t decided what they’re going to be yet.

I’ll probably be a scarecrow at the local heritage interpretive house a few days before Halloween, but I’m not planning to dress up on Halloween.

I really want to dress my son as “The Booby-Monster” Get it? But, what does a Boogie Monster look like? And how do I make my son into a boobie?
Yeah …. see? I NEED that amazon gift card to get my kid some damn pumpkin or pea-pod costume cause I’m BAD at this creative thing.

My mom made my sister and me Madame Alexander costumes when we were small — Spain for her and Germany for me. Did she take a picture? One stinkin’ picture? Nope.

My daughter signed up to bring home the class hamster the weekend of Halloween. I have been informed that my husband agreed to help make a ghost costume for the hamster out of a tissue. Yikes!

now…after reading this post…my son is going to be DARTH VADER. that was too cool!!!

A BAT!!!! My 2 and a half year old will be a BAT! Love!

We are totally dressing our newly one-year-old pug as a dinosaur. Because the costume comes with a triceratops-like tail, and there was just nothing quite so awesome.

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Oops, I lost an R. It’s Harry Potter not Potte, lol. Must be my New England accent coming through to my fingers.