We received this post from The Wetzel Chronicle and had to post it!
A Family Tradition
My mom was the queen of Halloween costumes. She took great pride in
creating just the perfect, unique get-up for her kids. Even when I was
just four months old she dressed me as Humpty Dumpty and put me on her
shoulder. Of course she was dressed as a wall.
One day I came
home from school and she was pulling a papier mache Snoopy head out of
the oven. I thought she had lost it, but she was proud of her creation.
I was a bit concerned. That Snoopy head wasn’t perfectly smooth like
the masks in the boxed costumes at Big Wheel or Murphy’s Mart. Those
were the costumes I always wanted, but she knew she could do better
than a plastic coverall and a thin mask attached with an elastic string.
I don’t know that the same holds true, but I think she taught me right because I made Joellen’s costume this year.
When I asked her what she wanted to be, she said “Wow Wow!” In
two-year-old speak that is Wow Wow Wubbzy, a rather new cartoon that is
all the rage with the pre-school set these days.
I decided that was possible and started making plans (after I found out such a costume could not be Googled).
My husband and sister were afraid for Joellen’s pride, but at
Saturday’s costume parade at the Chili-Fest, she wore her costume with
pride and walked down the middle of Main Street saying in amazement,
“I’m Wow Wow! I’m Wow Wow!”
![JoellenWubbzy JoellenWubbzy](../../../a/6a00d834521acb69e2010535c553aa970b-800wi.jpg)
What an amazing Wubbzy costume! Great work and Great story! -Angie