At the risk of relinquishing the “Cool Mom” or "With It Mom" moniker, I confess that I had NO idea what my son was talking about when he told me what he wanted to be for Halloween. He said he wanted to be Nyan Cat, but instead of a Pop Tart, he wanted to use a waffle. He wanted to be a waffle kitten. HUH?
Being as close as I am to Google (we're besties), I immediately got on the Google machine and asked the interwebs, “What the heck?”
I can't remember if I mentioned in my blog precisely how creative my son is, but as I've said many times to many people, he doesn't just think outside of the box, he isn't really aware there is a box.
In case you were curious to know what Tac Nayn and Cat Nyan are, the site Level Up Studios had a good (read: parent-friendly) explanation: Nyan Cat is a free spirit who loves exploring the universe and making new friends!
But there’s one dark entity who’ll never accept his playful friendship. Tac Nayn… destroyer of worlds!
An evil doppleganger of Nyan Cat, Tac Nayn is only interested in interstellar destruction and leaving monochrome rainbow trails across his home dimension of Tac-9.
Of course with a body made out of Belgian waffle, I can’t help but wonder, maybe he’s not all bad?
As an aside, did you know that you can't just buy a waffle costume? Well, in case you were wondering, you can't. An internet search yields approximately 10 of the same pictures, all homemade costumes. One of the photos looked like it was within my realm of expertise (it looked easy). A woman took a convoluted foam mattress topper, cut it into a circle, added some paint for highlights, and she looked like an Eggo waffle.
I learned something else. The old convoluted foam mattress toppers (egg crate style) don't exist in the cream/yellow/off-white incarnation for $15 anymore. They have blue ones, and they are now $30 and up. Well, what if the paint wouldn't cover the blue? I'm out $30 and my son still doesn't have a costume.
Then, my husband remembered we had an old mattress topper upstairs!! Even better! A no-cost costume! He brought it down, and yes, it was foam, but it wasn't egg-crate style, it was swirls and squiggles. Not exactly waffle-esque.
Off I trekked to Michael's. I bought some white foam board and a bunch of paints. Okay, kid, have at it.
My husband cut the boards into squares, but my son did the rest.
My daughter had a costume/birthday party to go to earlier in the month, so she had to decide on a costume early. She chose Minnie Mouse. Later we found out that three or four of her friends also chose Minnie Mouse, but that's okay. She loves her (store bought) costume, and so do I. The only thing I had to do for her costume was paint shoes, and add red bows. I am a shoe painter from waaaaaaaaaay back, so it was no big deal.
Both kids go to schools that allow them to dress up for Halloween, so both kids wore their costumes this morning. I had two happy kids today. I love happy mornings! 
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