Halloween Oz

Cynthia and I were talking about Halloween costumes and discovered that members of both of our families had independently suggested doing the Wizard of Oz.  So, we decided we would have both our families do the theme together.  We figured there were plenty of characters to choose from.  When we pitched the idea some were for it and some were not.  We let them choose who they wanted to be.  We did have to sell some of the characters to them.  It was fun to watch them get excited as it got closer to Halloween.  There were many impromptu plays with the kids acting out their parts from the Wizard of Oz.  Brayden impressed us by playing many parts and showing them how to do their part.  He did an impressive Wicked Witch of the West.  It was a lot of fun putting the costume ideas all together.  We wish that we had more places to show off our costumes.  All that work and we only used them for a few hours at the church Halloween party.

Here is the list of characters
Mauren and Cynthia - people from the Emerald City
Matt - the Wizard of Oz
Kristel - Wicked Witch of the East
Gabriela - Wicked Witch of the West
Asher - flying monkey
David - Cowardly Lion
Kylee - Scarecrow
Brayden - Tin Man
Natalia - Dorothy
Julia - Glenda the Good Witch
Blake - Munchkin (Lollipop guild)
Katia - Flower Munchkin
Analisa - Ballerina Munchkin
Tatiana - Mime (non-participant)

Asher did not cooperate with taking pictures on Halloween.  I put him in his Halloween outfit to take some pictures of his cute flying monkey costume on January 12, 2014 when he was 4 1/2 months old.