Pirate Sawyer Rollins

Jack Sparrow at your service!!!! (Pirates of the Caribbean)

The hunt for this year's Halloween costume almost sent me over the edge. Since Sawyer's birthday was just last weekend, I hadn't really even put any thought into his costume at all.

(Mistake #1-Unprepared)

Then at his party with his little friends, one of them gave Sawyer a Buzz Light Year costume and Sawyer L-O-V-E-S Buzz! I cringed at the thought of him being Buzz because I knew there would be one hundred other Buzzes on our block alone.....

(Mistake #2-Pride & the Need for my child to look unique.)

After seeing his excitement over the costume I had decided that he would be Buzz this year and he was beyond excited.

(Mistake #3-Blabber Mouth)

....that was until I opened it up for our Day Care party and realized just what a pathetic version of Buzz it really was.....it was like a limp body suit. Back to the drawing board! It's now the day of and I don't have anything remotely ready.....so after church we hit a few Goodwills, thrift stores, Nobbies, Spirits and finally ended up at Mengolsens. I was tired and hungry and so was Sawyer and we both were ready to be done.

(Mistake #4-Going out shopping with a four year old on little sleep and an empty stomach)

After searching through everyone's leftovers and trying to find one that still had all the pieces to it......we found it! Well, actually Sawyer found it and loved it and so did I!

We completed the ensemble l with a beard and long dangly clip on earing that I made and I gotta say-He looked SO GOOD! We did a few houses in our neighborhood first and then headed to Nana & Papa's house.

We headed over to Nana & Papa's after a quick trip into the gas station to see our friend John at work...and of course to pick up some candy from him too! Uncle Alex had a bunch of his buddies over that night for pizza and they all thought that Sawyer looked so awesome! After a slice of pizza and a bread stick we headed off down the block in search of some bounty-arrrggg!

Taking a quick break...lugging around all that candy takes it's toll!

He loved trudging up to the porches and shouting Trick or Treat unless there was any sort of scary ghost, witch, cat or zombie.....and of course when they held out the bowl instead of politely taking one, he would thrust his hand in and grabbed as many as his little fist could hold!

After hitting quite a few houses in Nana & Papa's neighborhood, we headed over to our friend Chase's house to make one last stop and it was a good thing! Sawyer like doubled his candy stash at Chases! Once we got home, he wanted to sit down and pour out his loot and admire all of his hard work :) And we didn't see one other pirate (let alone Jack Sparrow) the entire night! Not too shabby for a last minute costume in a bag!