Procrastination!

Well here at the Monkey Ranch it's business as usual. Why do today what can be put off till tomorrow? Actually we are a day ahead of the curve currently.

Today's dinner topic was, "with Halloween tomorrow, what are the kids going to wear?".

Fortunately with the monkeys spaced fairly closely together last years costume can usually be made to fit for one or the other monkeys.

Emelie was covered as her costume from last year still fits, and what almost 5 year old girl doesn't want to terrorize the neighborhood as a carnivorous dinosaur?

Olivia batted cleanup on the costumes and gets to be a bear. I think this is her 2nd year as a bear but we are getting our moneys worth out of the costume.

Eli we had to think about befor a bit before inpiration struck.

Yesterday morning he had gotten into the garage and was busily looting it for new and interesting stuff to play with. Fortunately he's yet to discover the joys of a gallon of latex paint. But I am sure at some point that will be another blog entry.

Well Eli headed to the far reaches of the garage and discovered my old kevlar Marine Corps helmet! He was a very happy small boy!


























And then the other monkeys had to get into the act.



And little miss, "I am going to be trouble in another 10 or so years"....



So tonight we started working on Eli's costume. I broke out some of my old field gear that was being used to store some ammo, decided that Eli probably didn't want to wander the neighborhood carrying almost 300 rounds of 308 rifle ammo and I decided to be nice and off load it. Well he's still a little small to fit a combat web belt and a set of "Y" suspenders so we had to improvise.

I'll have real Halloween pictures tomorrow night but I couldn't resist posting this tonight.



Makes a Marine Daddy proud!