Here Comes Hudson: The Captian and his first mate

When Hudson was about a month old Roman decided he wanted to be a pirate for Halloween. I thought it would be fun for them to have matching costumes and one day I was in the VF store and saw a little pirate sleeper costume. It was less then $10 so I picked it up and thought "That was easy."

Well, I just keep throwing around the idea of Roman's costume in my head and finally in September I decided to do something about it. I went over to the fabric store and found the cutest costume pattern and it has a second pattern on it, that was SO adorable. I was wandering through the fabric store. Hudson was in the front carrier sleeping peacefully, Roman was at school and I thought "Hey I can just make both costumes. It will be so much cuter." So I found all the fabric and supplies for both costumes and got home before I thought "What am I THINKING? I have a baby that's not even 2 months old, isn't sleeping through the night, a 3 year old that's crazy...sure I can make 2 costumes...no problem. HA!"

So I started cutting out the pattern that day. I got it pinned to the fabric...and it sat like that for another week. I finally got Roman's costume cut out and the jacket put together and I thought "Okay, I can do this, it's really not THAT hard."

Then it was time to start Hudson's costume...the smallest size the pattern went down to was 1/2 (basically 6 months) so I had to size it down quite a bit for it to fit my 3 month old. I wasn't sure if it was really going to work at all. I was pleasantly surprised when I tried it on him and it fit. Not old did it fit, but it was adorable.

Then there was the quest for the perfect boots. I had an idea in my mind what I wanted, and after searching 3 or 4 stores in a last attempt I ran into Kmart and found the perfect boots. They completed the costume perfectly.