The die is cast

Hey kids,

You've made your choices. Too late to turn back now. It *is* the 5th of October, after all...

Wavy has decided to be Super Martian Robot Girl for Halloween, and Jakob has decided -- after much deliberation -- that he wants to be an owl.

At first you wanted to be Plex, the yellow robot from Yo Gabba Gabba. That was when I planted the seed in Wavy's mind that perhaps she would like to be SMRG, also from Yo Gabba Gabba. Although I suspect Wavy doesn't really CARE what she is for Halloween, she seems to have warmed to the idea, and is looking forward to shopping for tights and Electric Lizard Green Manic Panic hair gel.

After you moved beyond your initial Plex idea, you said you wanted to be a bee. I don't know if I was wrong in trying to talk you out of it. You went through a bee phase over the summer, where you couldn't get enough of talking about bees, wanting to be a bee, watching bee sting videos on YouTube. But I gently convinced you that there will probably be a great many *babies* out there that are dressed up like bees, and that maybe you wanted to pick out something more "grown-up."

So then you came up with your owl idea. You were enamored of the owl that resided in our campsite this summer:



My sewing machine is out of commission, but I'm a whiz with fabric glue and fusible tape. And with daddy's latent talent as a makeup artist (see: last year's bitchin' tiger costume and makeup), I think we might be able to make you into a pretty decent owl.

But we've got to get busy. Like... immediately. And like I said... no changing your mind! Love you!