A costume for those big-eyed, juice-box-bellied babies in your life. Recreate the iconic Bob’s Big Boy Statue with this Big Boy Burger Costume DIY!

Ok. Even if you don’t get this costume right off the bat LOOK AT THAT YUMMY BOY!!! Are you kidding me?! It’s a miracle I haven’t eaten him up already. This was his first solo blog modeling job and he was the sweetest, cutest little dude the whole time! AND, he turned two just yesterday (or today as I write this!!) Can you believe that!? I shared his first birthday, a Halloween Carnival here just a couple weeks ago and even that party feels so recent! But it was a year ago!! I love that he’s getting older though, TBH. It’s so much more fun (and way easier than when he was baby) haha.

I’ve always thought my kids had very vintage-style faces. Like Kewpie dolls. They have these very timeless, yet young, features. And one night, my brother in law says “You know what Otto looks like? There’s this vintage statue… It’s like of a little boy, holding a plate of donuts or something…” And I knew exactly what he was picturing! The moment he said it I thought “OMG YES!”

But, neither of us could remember exactly what it was we were thinking of! We knew it was a boy holding something and he had a round ol’ belly and that it was an iconic thing. We just could not put our finger upon it or find what we were looking for by Googling. I never forgot it though, I’d sometimes try to find it again, I just knew it looked just like my son!

Fast forward a couple months and finally I said it to my husband: “Otto looks just like this vintage image I can think of but I can’t remember what it is. It’s like a sign or a statue or something…there’s this cute little boy holding a plate of donuts or something I swear..But I can’t find it online…”

Without a seconds hesitation he knew EXACTLY what it was I was talking about! He whips out his phone and brings up this picture of the Big Boy statue from a Southern California burger Joint, Bob’s Big Boy. (Here is a fun little history on the place.) And I was like “That’s it!!!” Just like that, he understood my cryptic message and solved the mystery haha!

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As we get ready for Halloween this year, here’s a look back at our last year’s DIY birthday party family halloween costume! Complete with cake, party hat, presents, and confetti!

I’ve been brainstorming our family halloween costume for months, and as usual, I am planning a few costumes this year haha. But before I can share those, I had to take a look back at our family costume last year! We went as a birthday party!

Our 3 year old daughter went as a party hat which was a costume she absolutely loved! She still dresses up in it often :)

And our 1 year old went as a birthday candle in a sheet cake wagon! Looking like a bobblehead figure!

He was a big inspiration for this group costume as a whole because I was planning his one year birthday party at the same time so birthday things were on my mind! Plus, I knew I wanted to incorporate either his stroller or our wagon into his costume. Even if he had been walking great by that time, I would never plan on a baby doing well around the neighborhood for trick or treating! I’ve always loved the baby costumes that use transportation (there are some seriously genius stroller/wagon costumes out there!) so I was excited to try my hand at our own version and a sheet cake seemed to be the perfect fit.

As for me, I went as a bag of confetti and my husband went as a stack of birthday presents. All the costumes were fairly simple but I thought I’d share the DIY for each of them here. Sit tight, there’s a lot of birthday themed costumes to see here :D

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8 of the easiest maternity costumes ever! Free templates to make simple shirts so you can be carefree and comfy in your pregnant belly on Halloween.

Let’s face it, being super pregnant for Halloween may not be the most fun thing ever. All the activities seem to be a little less appealing when there is a lack of energy. Walking around the neighborhood trick or treating: not as easy or as enjoyable with that extra pooch. And costumes can already be stressful so add on all the pregnancy stuff and it may seem downright impossible! Well, never fret! We’ve created 8 of the easiest maternity costumes ever for you today!

Seriously, all you need for each of these outfits is a plain t-shirt and a little felt. We’ve included the templates for all the cut parts of the felt (and the cut files in case you’re lucky enough to be using a Cricut!) so there is no work coming up with the how. It’s already done for you!

These costumes are all about the belly! They require nothing beyond decoration of the bump which means, yes, you CAN wear leggings all day/night! Glory! Since the bump is definitely the cutest part of pregnancy, these costumes perfectly accentuate it, which I love.

All your faves are here folks! Donut, cookie, poke ball, fruit slices, disco ball, and a balloon! So not only are these easy, they’re super trendy :) I just couldn’t help including all this year’s favorites in this round up. And they were all just perfect for round prego bellies!

I’ll be the first to admit that I didn’t love posing for a bunch of photos (and subsequently posting them on the internet) while 37 weeks pregnant a.k.a. about to pop a.k.a. feeling really fat. But I just knew I couldn’t let this year pass by without doing some maternity costume DIYs! This is the only time I ever plan on being pregnant around Halloween (because I plan on this being our last baby!). So, it felt like a great opportunity to come up with some fun ways to dress the bump!

I love how little effort these are. Especially if you already have children, you know it’s hard to find time for your own costume, after stressing about theirs! So this is the perfect choice for Mommas all around! I am planning on having this baby before Halloween (although my due date actually IS Halloween) but I might still sport one of these for the holiday seeing as how I’ll probably still look 5 months pregnant. Oh postpartum joys! :D Oh well! This is literally PERFECT for that crazy time right after baby comes. I can throw on a shirt no matter how tired I am (in fact I’ll have to anyway…haha).

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