TMNT Halloween

Last year, Aaron and I had lame last-minute Halloween costumes. We wanted to be more ambitious this year and do something clever with the whole pregnant thing. Aaron came up with the genius idea of Krang from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Krang is this evil alien dude that looks like a brain with a face and arms. He built a robot suit and hangs out in the cockpit in the stomach. He works with Shredder to take over the world and defeat those pesky Turtles.

Many cardboard boxes and a roll of metallic duct tape later, we had costumes!

Photo Cred to Melony Hall

Had to include this picture because Aaron forgot the hand spikes at home

These pictures are kind of funny... you can't tell that my belly is pushing the Krang out several inches.

The response at the church trunk-or-treat party: A three-year-old girl that usually loves me ran away with a disgusted look on her face. A couple guys in their late 20's/early 30's recognized us and gave us props. Everyone else was impressed that we had obviously put forth substantial effort even though they had no clue what we were. All in all I would call it a success. It was more fun than I thought it would be to put the costumes together- I'm normally not crafty.

Halloween itself was fun. We didn't get as many trick-or-treaters as we thought we would, probably because the houses at the beginning of the block aren't finished yet so our street isn't as promising from a candy per distance walked standpoint. We went over to the House of Hays to get rid of the rest of our candy and watch Ghostbusters.