I could eat him up

Behind that fringe are the luscious brown eyes of Sonar X7.  Happy birthday kiddo!

Halloween

I strongly recommend you keep a trained photographer on hand at all times.  Pictures are so much cooler with a trained photographer.  Evidence: First is my pic (yes these kids are delicious, but the photographer has no eye for arrangement), second is our friend Carrie’s (I love the motion and intensity of the four boys).  

Please click to enlarge.  

P.S. Two of these children visited the barber between photo-ops.

Sonar X4 (Entling), Sonar X9 (Mad Hatter), and Sonar X6 (Artemis Fowl)

Sonar X9, Honorary Sonar (Batman), Sonar X4, and Sonar X6 on a Candy Mission

Halloween, Beta-test edition

Last weekend our town had a Halloween party in the park.  Snow cones, bouncing things, costume contests, trick-or-treating.  It was fun.  And it gave us a chance to test-drive this year’s Halloween costume.  Which is good, because we definitely want to do some small tweaks and one big revision.  I love love love Halloween!

Sonar X4: An Entling

Sonar X4 impersonating a treeCan you tell that we’ve been reading Tolkien for several months?  The brown clothes (made from a big t-shirt) worked great.  But the many-colored felt leaves looked more like sleeve-ruffles.  The floppy hat was a last-minute improvisation because I had nothing else ready.  I’m going to add some purchased leaf-garland to the sleeves and make a crown of leaves.  He does not want me to remove the felt leaves though.  He likes those.  

Sonar X6: Artemis Fowl

Sonar X6 as Artemis FowlOn our edition of Artemis Fowl, Artemis is wearing a suit and sunglasses and holding a small, glowing book.  From the back cover: “Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a millionaire, a genius, and, above all, a criminal mastermind.”  I found the shirt and jacket for a few dollars at a thrift store, and made the tie.  I bought the pants new, figuring that we could get some good wear out of a nice pair of black pants.  Yes, I’m going to hem them.  For the fairy book, we covered some tiny notebooks with paper from a glittery, golden gift bag.  He’ll have a fresh haircut on Saturday, I think, so his slick look will be even sharper.  

Sonar X9: The Mad Hatter (Tim Burton/Johnny Depp version)

Sonar X9 as Tim Burton’s Mad HatterThis costume was fun to put together.  He’s wearing another thrift-store jacket.  This one a ladies jacket with flared sleeves.  The striped pants are pajama pants that belong to Sonar X6.  He has orange-striped fingerless gloves and a Burger Kitchen tea cup.  I made the hat and neck bow out of stuff I found around the house (fabric, foam, plastic cardboard, a wire hanger, and a lot of glue).  I used the Threadbanger How-to for that one.  Threadbanger does a wig, but he preferred to paint his own hair orange (he thought that part was really really cool).  We may swap the Burger Time cup for a slightly more Mad cup, and I’m going to add some embellishments like a hat pin and size tag.  We’re going to skip the spool-bandolero.  

Someone Had a Birthday

… almost two weeks ago.

Happy to be one year older? Or ready for lemon-poppyseed pound cake?These faces crack me upImpossible to not make a silly face when waiting for cake

Sonar Photography

Documenting an attempt at a nice photo of the Sonars all-together.  At the Texas State Aquarium on Wednesday August 19, 2009.  

Stand together over here.

Uh, ok, how about you all sit down together instead.  Maybe I can get a good shot that way.

Never mind.