beachybikegirl
HALLOWEEN
Nov 14, 2015
Halloween, so what a fun time for girls who are over weight right? Every costume is a “Sexy this” and a “Sexy that.” Even still, I love Halloween, I love fun costumes, I even sew which has truly come in handy when dealing with costumes. This year my family decided to be the Avengers, my son was Iron Man, Grandpa- The Hulk, Daddy -Captain America and me the girl version of Thor. I order the costumes in September to ensure we can get them then check the sizes and make any adjustments if necessary. So the girl Thor costume of course came in “Sexy Girl Thor.” The largest size they had was “large size” which equaled a size 12, but typically costumes are about a size smaller then listed so I was nervous about it fitting but hopeful. When it arrived, I was able to fit into it no problem but it was short because of the “sexy” factor. Putting my sewing skills to good use I made a silver under skirt which looked like part of the costume and made it look a tad more acceptable for my tastes. Our family went to a local Halloween street festival, people were stopping us and asking to take pictures with us but best of all I actually felt cute. I took the day off of work on the Friday before Halloween to go to my son’s school Halloween parade. My son is 3 and very attached to mommy and daddy. As the kids were dressed up in their costumes and walking out for the parade, which was basically a paparazzi line of parents taking pictures of their kids, I promised my son I would hold his hand and not leave him during the parade, while I wasn’t the only parent walking in the parade I was one of just a few but I started to well up with tears in my eyes. If this was a year ago I would have just died that I needed to hold my sons hand in a parade while a 100 parents snapped photos and videos, I would have just died of embarrassment! Now I was so joyful to hold my son’s hand during the parade and I didn’t care how many photos I ended up in, talk about an NSV!! One of the many reasons I wanted WLS was to not be embarrassed to be in photos with my son. My son is three and I have 4000 photos of him and about 10 of him and I together, while sad, it is starting to increase.
