A Big Announcement

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From the moment you get pregnant and realize that a family – your very own made-from-scratch family – is on the horizon, your thoughts shift. People will ask you what’s to come for your growing family, and as much as you resent their intrusiveness, you start to wonder if there will ever be more.

Once you get through those horrific, non-sleeping first months, your mind begins to meander. You can do this. You can make something again.

And you start to plan. The plan is good. Even though you don’t have a lot of money and don’t know how you are going to afford the baby you already have, you know that since you want this one thing enough, you will be able to make it happen because that’s what families do.

All of a sudden, that special, wonderful thing you had been planning and working so hard to create just EXISTS. Although your partner assisted you in creating that one special thing, you know that it was all you who brought it to its fruition. Your motherhood is engorged and you are elated.

So, without further ado, a major announcement:

Wee Cee is going to be an owl for Halloween. 

And I made her costume myself:

Here’s the back:

And one more:

What? What did you think I was going to announce?

Happy Halloween!

PS, Feel free to Pin the crap out of this post! ;D

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111 thoughts on “A Big Announcement”

  3. So. Freaking. Cute.

    I’m working on making the costumes for the 5 and 6 year old STILL. 13y/o is taller than most adults, so won’t pass for young enough to trick or treat in our town. [sigh]

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  8. Now that I’ve recovered from a case of the vapors…..I’ll try to comment….. Wee Cee is the absolute cutest little ” HOOT ” I have ever seen !

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  10. That is so freaking cute, it almost made me forget the ticked off post I’m planning for today. Almost. Might lose a few readers, but I’ve got Miss C’s awesome owl costume to cheer me up.

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  12. I don’t get how you have time to do all these sweet things, be a cool mom and make owl costumes. I can barely feed myself never mind make a costume. Miss C is the cutest as per usual.

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  16. Oh, Emily, you so, SO had me going! I totally did not see it coming. As someone who had a bad/good habit of getting pregnant with one while still nursing another (and no, ahem, I was not one of those um, interesting, moms who breastfeed their school age children) I took the bait. Oh, but how the pics have redeemed you! How can I stay mad at you for pulling one over on me when you made me laugh and giggle and ooh and ah over your unspeakably cute little owl?? My heart is warmed. (And my womb is cold. Thank God.) Okay, that was weird, I know. But I’m just so, so grateful to never have to be pregnant again…

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    • Hi Willow! I totally cannot imagine having another baby right now. Those ladies who can do it have got to be super human. C has slept through the night since she was 7 weeks old and now, all of a sudden, she is having a really hard time doing this, so the idea of being up with her AND being nauseous with another one makes me weep inside. Here’s to not being pregnant!

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  21. Adorable! You have mad skillz (also skillz in the suspense department). My kids are going as a cop, a jailbird, and a giraffe. I’m lazy though, so it’s all store-bought. (I usually get them during the post Halloween sales.) My daughter really wants to be a princess… but let’s face it. She’s basically a princess every day.

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    • I love the combo of a cop, a jailbird, and a giraffe! Totally makes me think of the old “one of these things is not like the other” bit. If I had more than one kid, I probably wouldn’t be making her costume. I think I’m going to Target on Thursday to buy her costume for next year on clearance. I would have done that last year but then we had no idea if she was going to be a boy or a girl.

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  23. I was all ready to congratulate you. Well, I guess I still can, because anybody who can create a cool costume like that deserves congratulations. My sons are lucky I never attempted to make any of theirs. I’m already dreading trying to make my son’s face look like The Joker’s on Wednesday, since that is his chosen costume. Let’s hope my hand is steady when I’m applying that makeup…

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    • I know! She did a really good job posing for these pics! Come to find out that there was a pile of dog poop right under the blanket where she was sitting. Halloween photo shoot fail.

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  30. Oh. Em. Gee. Miss C is killing me with her cuteness. I’m dying, here. She is one gorgeous owl. That costume is AMAZING!!! Now you’ve set a precedent, Emily. Next year, I fear you’ll feel the need to create something equally as clever or better than this owl – which of course would be impossible. Just don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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    • I’m up for the challenge! I found a really adorable owl costume for babies from Pottery Barn Kids but it was like $65 and I couldn’t possible rationalize paying that, so I just made this one. It took awhile, but believe it or not it wasn’t too hard. I hope she chooses a really difficult one next year because I think I can duplicate it! Thanks, Lisa!

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  43. I’m so glad your announcement was something of such magnitude. I thought it might be something trivial, like about marriages or babies or hurricanes. Or truffles. This is the best baby outfit ever. And that’s the kind of thing announcements SHOULd be about.

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  44. Just shut it!! That baby and that costume are ridonkulously cute! RE DONK! And you made it? Mothers like you make mothers like me hate ourselves. Darling!!! Just so cute! I like it.

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  47. Big doesn’t even cover this announcement, huge is more appropriate.

    I think some pictures of you in a Halloween costume when you were a kid are in order, you know, so you don’t feel so guilty for dressing your kid up all the time.

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