Costuming.

In my family, we like dressing up. My mom always made sure our lives were full of creativity and imagination, so it only made sense that we would pretend to be various characters from books we read or movies we watched or that we would just make up our own stories to act out.

Last year, Matt and I visited my grandparents and, while at their house, flipped through some family pictures for entertainment. He is now convinced that I spent my entire childhood in costume. There are pictures of me dressed as a ladybug, a baby chick, a cheerleader, an old woman, wearing various dance costumes, dressed in my brothers clothing, pretending to be pregnant before my younger siblings were born, sporting crazy hairstyles.

Years of dressing up have made my siblings and I pretty good at putting together a costume and our skills were put to work this week as Marc, my youngest brother, had Costume Day at school. Here are some pictures of Marc as Waldo from the Where's Waldo books. They would be perfect if only you had to pick him out in a crowd...