A Magnificent Ensemble

While out rummaging Friday morning, Mr. Sneaky Pants found a kids hockey helmet. It was $2. I couldn’t not get it for him. You should have seen the little guy, going on and on and on and on about how he could use the helmet to pretend to be a football player, and a hocky player, and a motorcycle driver, and an astronaut. The lady running the garage sale was just in stitches because he was just glued to the helmet, giving me a low down about it in the most excited voice ever. So, we bought a few children’s picture books and the $2 helmet (that came with a face cage, but we decided to use that another time because it was getting in the way too much and Mr. SP couldn’t lift it up and down himself).

We came home and he wore the helmet for two days straight. Really. He even slept in it at nap. And yesterday, he came up with this incredible costume. The scuba diving air tank is the cushion from our futon that he begged me to tie around his middle like with a rope. The green galoshes are beloved footwear of choice lately. He saw Dr. Peds wearing the goggles when he was using the chainsaw yesterday afternoon, and pleaded to use them himself. The foam sword Dr. Peds found on an excursion to the retail district to buy maple trees for our front yard, and my sword loving husband couldn’t resist not getting it. At least it will be less painful for the people Mr. SP accidently bonks into, namely his sisters.