Halloween 2011

For Halloween 2011, I decided to take on a brief sewing project and make Keaden a Spike hoodie from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

He was incredibly happy to wear it, to model it for me, and we had an absolute blast during Halloween!

You'd be heartless not to love him!

Keaden's second year of cosplay was a Heartless from the video game Kingdom Hearts. This was debuted at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2011 and, with Keaden knowing quite a few more words, he was able to say 'costume' in no time. By the time his costume was completed, and we'd arrived at the convention, he'd immediately gone for the bag with the costume in it. He was eager, and just as happy to be in it. This is a photo from a fitting test:

This costume, we'd actually built a Wonderflex headpiece inside of the costume itself, which held the pipe-cleaner antennae in place. The eyes were made of friendly plastic, and had a yellow LED set into place inside a Wonderflex base, and held on with these nifty clear silicon earplugs, so the LEDs and batteries were entirely changeable, should something have burned out. Then, we covered it all in the costume satin his bodysuit was made out of. Here's a shot of him in action at the convention:

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Like the previous year, we entered him into the costume contest, but he didn't win anything, which was ok. He just loved the attention, and everyone we met took the opportunity to tell us that he was the cutest thing they'd seen at the convention. It didn't matter that we didn't win, he had a good time, and that's all that matters. <3

Cosplay Noob

Keaden's first cosplay was September 2010, at Anime Weekend Atlanta, as Keroberos from the show Card Captor Sakura. He was just short of a year old, shuffling around, and I was very wary to put him in a costume, for fear that he'd dislike it or I'd get nasty remarks about letting my son cosplay. (Let the records show that if he'd shown ANY hesitation or dislike of being in costume, I wouldn't have even thought about putting it on him).

Imagine my surprise when he not only liked it, but literally everyone we met liked HIM!

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In fact, he liked it SO MUCH, that we entered him into the costume contest. He gave an enthusiastic wave to the audience and wound up winning the 'Cutest Costume' award.

This was the beginning, I'm sure there are many more to come.

The Cosplay Baby

No, this isn't some blog where I post photos of my poor tortured child, forced to wear a cosplay costume for my amusement. ;) This is a blog where I log progress of the costumes I've completed for my son, who absolutely insists on being in a costume, even at his very young age. Don't believe me? The photos don't lie. That wide smile is telling of how he feels being dressed up, and how he loves the attention he gets from other cosplayers. Photos coming up in the next post!