Above is Mazzy in her Corduroy costume (ineligible for any awards, I wouldn't want her to sweep!) I still have no idea if she knew what was happening on Monday— besides that strangers give you candy and CANDY IS THE BEST THING EVER. I'm actually surprised that she hasn't tried to randomly ring any of our neighbor's doorbells since. It's probably just a height thing. If she had a step stool, I bet she'd be all over it.
One of the greatest things about Halloween this year (besides a seemingly unlimited supply of Kit Kats) was seeing all of your kids in their costumes.
There were almost 100 Halloween photos submitted on the Mommy Shorts Facebook Fanpage. Every one of them was adorable and I was incredibly impressed with your ingenuity, your craftiness and your ability to get your kids into even the most cumbersome of outfits.
I was so impressed that I will be stealing your ideas next year.
However. I couldn't possibly feature all of the photos today. I am but a one woman operation with a headcold.
So without further ado, I present…
THE 1ST MOMMY SHORTS HALLOWEEN COSTUME AWARDS
Most Morbid: Brain-eating Ruby Jane as a Zombie Baby
Most Delicious: Tie between Graham as Bacon and Hazy as a Cupcake
Most Likely to Beat Ariel at Her Own Game: Suzie as a Mermaid
Best Reason to Have Five Kids: The Hoffmans as a box of Crayola Crayons
Most in Need of Someone To Check on Grandma: Maya as Little Red Riding Hood and Reyes as the Big Bad Wolf
Best Tribute to the '80s: Sabrina as a Monchichi
Most Welcome Mel Gibson Alternative: McClain as William Wallace from Braveheart
Most Likely To Start a Fight On A Saturday Night: Josephine as Elton John
Best Rehab Results: Angeline as a Tootsie Roll (Angeline was Lindsey Lohan in the Cheap-Ass Costume post)
Best Use of a Dad: George as Curious George with Dad as The Man in the Yellow Hat
Best Use of a Mom: Parker as a Spider with Mom as Little Miss Muffet
Most Worldly and Most Economical: Jackson as a Venetian Gondolier
Most Likely to Give Mazzy A Run For Her Money: Hannah as a Watermelon, Josie as a Cavegirl, Stella as a Lamb and Rebecca as a Bumblebee
Best Lawn Ornament: Sam as a Friendly Garden Gnome
Most Random Animal Costume: Warren as a Sea Otter
Worst Decision Maker: Zoe Jayne as a Dorothy/Red Riding Hood Hybrid
Best Use of Excess Material: George as a Hot Dog
Most Hardcore: Tie between Nathan as a Rock Star and Katja as a Cow
Least Frightening: Raina as a Ghost Princess
Likely Most Costume Best: Kai as Yoda
Most Likely to Let The House Burn Down: Carson, Mom and Elmo as Firefighters
Most Exhausted Mom by the End of the Night: Keith as "Jake and the Neverland Pirates"
Most Random Array of Siblings: Henry as Jack Sparrow, Ivy as a Bee, Essie as an Elephant and Ervin as a Banana
Least Random Array of Siblings: Abby as The Queen Of Hearts, Kate as Alice and Kayson as The Mad Hatter
Most Likely to Get Swept Away By a Hurricane: Dad as Uncle Henry, Mom as Auntie Em and Anna as Dorothy
Most Likely to Cause Mayhem in Bedrock: Raya as Pebbles and Kallen as BamBam
Most Impressive Use Of A Bathroom Mat: Vivian as her Lovey, Lambie
Most Awesome Use of a Double Thumbs-up: Oisin as a Chick Magnet
Best Zoolander Pose: Ella as a Cat
Least Aware of the Blood Sweat & Tears Mom Put Into that Costume: Maysen as a handmade Spongebob
Most Wanted: Chase as a Smurf (getting arrested)
Best Use of Photoshop: MJ as C3PO
Worst Committment to Character: Joe as Chucky
Most Likely To Watch the BBC Instead of PBS: Tristan as the 10th Doctor, Marian as Rose Tyler and baby Josey as an Adipose (from Doctor Who)
Most Likely To Make Me Use Google, Feel Old and Download a New Song: AJ as the Party Rock Robot
Least Evil: Lucie Jane (the winner of the Evil Baby Glare-Off) as a very tramutized Pea in a Pod
Most Likely to Cause A Justin-Bieber-Esque Riot Amongst the Toddler Set: Brody, Linc and Chase as the Sesame Street Gang
Most Likely To "Run All The Way Home" Screaming Bloody Murder: Katelyn as a Pig
Best Introduction to a Movement I Had No Idea Existed: Katie, Jared and Jack as Steampunk Kids
Most True to Life Costume: Police Officer Jude with Prisoner Mama
Best Use of a Sweatshop Called "Grandma": Quinn as an Elephant (created by Grammy the seamstress)
Most Deceivingly Sinister: Annika as a Hot Dog and Dad as Joey Chestnut (reigning champion of the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest)
Best Overall Costume: I couldn't pick it myself. I selected my top ten from the photos above and I'm putting it to a vote. Winner gets bragging rights and a Mommy Shorts Mug of their choice.
You've got all weekend to vote and the winner will be announced on Monday. I know that you REALLY WANT THAT MUG.
Also— The Colossal Cake Smash Smackdown starts next Friday with $400 in Crumbs Bakeshop prizes. Find all the details here and submit photos by posting them on the wall of the fanpage.
Now. Who's still got Halloween candy left? Because I depleted my stash last night and I might start harassing people for Kit Kats. Or Twix Bars. Or maybe some Peanut M&M's…
Just keep your Sweettarts and your Milk Duds to yourself, alright?
Have a good weekend!
— Mommy Shorts
Policeman and prisoner Mama totally cracked me up!
Monchichi?! Seriously!? That is freakin’ awesome and an excellent throw back!!
there are some seriously awesome costumes here, but the monchichi… so my fav!
Awww, I’m so glad you enjoyed Rebecca’s Bumblebee! It’s been a rough week, made me smile to see her picture here 🙂
I’ll vote for William Wallace. The serious look on his face works SOOO well, for all the wrong reasons 🙂
Yes! Loved the Monchichi. I still get that damned song stuck in my head from time to time.
Thanks for including us, almost makes spending 3 hours in used Goodwill shoes worth it. That was a tough vote, but I had to give it to Elton.
Gahhhhh what a tough decision!! I can’t wait to show this to my mother, who never fully appreciated the hilarity of the Evil Baby Glare Off. She said (and this is a direct quote) “I hope Landrie enters her in the most cute, cuddly, and happy baby [contest] next.” Thanks for including us 🙂
I don’t see how you could pick either. There were so many good ones.
How could you not know the Party Rock Anthem? I don’t even listen to the radio and it hooked me. The best is how my children love it and wear themselves out dancing to it…
Ok… I voted.
I think it has something to do with living in the city thus not being in a car very often combined with no longer going out to bars/clubs. Not a lot of opportunity to get introduced to new music, listen to the radio, etc.
Thanks so much for including Josie! I had to vote for Sir Elton.
And don’t worry, I’m in the car all the time and never heard of that … box on the head song, whatever it is. God, I guess I AM old.
I’m honored to make your Top 10. I wish I could say that I really did make Vivian’s costume out of a bathmat, but alas I’ve already confessed on my blog that I bought it. Me and a sewing machine? Not gonna happen.
Great costumes! I can’t believe that elephant costume was homemade by Grammy…there is some talent for you! Also, love the handmade SBSP (Spongebob) costumer. And I want the Burt and Ernie hats! Too cute! So many cute ideas that I may steal for next year.
yay! so happy to have made it on here! i am going to have to go for chick magnet, just because i think it’s clever.
Glad that there is bacon love! My husband was, of course, an egg. 🙂
So excited we made the top 10! I’m hoping I get one more year of making his costumes before he decides he wants cool store-bought one like all the other kids.
Best at writing hilarious captions: Ilana. This was a tour de force!
I smiled at SO many of them, and I agree – your captions! GAH! Making me laugh over here! cute kids indeed.
my 15-month old shuffles on command! catchy tune. think hubbie and 5 yr old daughter discovered it.
The 10th Doctor and his entourage have started a write in campaign! What do you mean they can’t write? Shut up. Mama and her friends can write! Vote for Dr. Who!
Your comments make these all awesome! Too much fun. I should have entered my Three Amigos!? Head over to my place and check-em out 🙂 “I have a plethora.”
Viva Los Amigos!
These are awesome. I remember my mom made me a rabbit costume, and apparently it was a lot of work, because I wore it like 3 years in a row. Now I feel inadequate for just buying my kids’ (!) costumes from Old Navy. Thank you for giving my cupcake and hot dog (one size fits all, my ass) some love.
Mazzy has my old Monchichi. Somehow I saved it all these years. The love was THAT great.
Rebecca was adorable in her costume. Sorry about your week. Hope the next is better!
I loved your photo. Looked like a still from the movie.
I am happy to appease your mother with the “Least Evil” award. And I think having a versatile baby is very important. Cheers!
We can be OLD together. Glad I’m not alone. And Josie is adorable!
WHA???!!! Disqualify!!! Nah. She’s still super cute. And SOMEONE must have made it out of a bathmat…
People continually impress me with their sewing skills. Of which I have none. I never would have known that Spongebob costume was store bought if the mom didn’t say it with the pic.
It was supposed to be in the top ten from the beginning but I published only nine by accident. Glad to have righted my wrong!
Did you make it or buy it?
Thank you. Thank you very much.
That was one highbrow costume. Did they know what they were? I mean— obviously the Apipose didn’t….
I will definitely check out your three amigos. Did they fight over who got to be Steve Martin?
Something about Hazy with that cherry helmet just made me smile.
Thanks so much for including my kids! (Keith & George.) Told my husband it was worth it to make the yellow hat now that we made it on your blog! And yes, I was exhausted after pulling that pirate ship…which he spent about 2 seconds in, and the rest running between houses. Lugged it around for 2.5 hours. Hope your cold is better! Mazzy is so cute in her costume. We LOVE That book and my 3 year old said she looks just like corduroy. Great job!
We are so excited that Zoe Jayne made it onto the page! We were thinking she was getting a little “Cybil” with the multiple personalities that she was throwing out there.
I really like Zombie baby for the win.
Corduroy might be my favorite.
Monchichi! Most definitely! So cute!
Thanks for including my random assortment! I’m determined to make them a little less random next year, but we’ll see if it happens. They’ve all got minds of their own, you know.
Thank you for including Josephine in the top ten! It is amazing how much fun we have had with her costume! BTW – Mazzy is ADORABLE! We love Corduroy in this house too! 🙂
OMG! all of them are adorable but i have to go with Josephine as Elton John!
William Wallace and the Doctor Who kids made my entire day! I don’t think I have ever seen anything so adorable!
happy to have made it on here, that’s so funny too. and excited made the top 10.good.
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