From superheroes to Slappy
Clothes are pretty boring most of the time. In the morning you’re either putting on a uniform for school or some hacky clothes for whatever we’re doing on the weekend. Not very exciting. You can pretty much bet that if one of the presents under the tree at Christmas is some t-shirts or pyjamas, that’ll be my least favourite present (Santa, take note!).
That’s why getting dressed up is something all kids love. It’s our chance to beat the boring, lose the lame, and make clothes fun. Luckily this year me and William got the chance to dress up in a few different crazy outfits.
First up we had the colour run, where we both wore clean white t-shirts and had to run a course through school where teachers and parents threw bright dye all over us. Apparently it was to raise money for the school – maybe they needed a new laundry to wash all those t-shirts. By the end of it we looked like we’d been caught in an explosion at a paint factory!
Only a few weeks later I got to dress up again, but with Mum this time. We were doing a Shore-to-Shore fun run, and everyone was encouraged to dress up in costumes. So me and Mum went as superheroes – I was Superman/SuperOllie and Mum was kind of a Batgirl. I looked awesome anyway. It was really fun but I was so tired by the end – running is not one of my favourite hobbies.
The last dress-up event was probably the most fun. Our school had its annual book day, where all the kids come dressed up as characters from their favourite books. Over the last year I’ve been obsessed with reading all the Goosebumps books and must have read dozens of them, so I decided to go as one of the creepy characters from there – the ventriloquist dummy Slappy.
For some reason, William decided to go as Hairy Maclary, even though he hasn’t read those books in ages. I think he just loves cats and we already had half the costume. Mum did a great make-up job on us both.
