We started dressing up again about 10 years ago. It depends on if you have somewhere to go or not, I guess. One year we went as Madonna and Dennis Rodman. (My husband--we painted his hair red, his face black, and put a veil on him. I couldn't let him go in the liquor store that night looking like that.) The next year we were a baseball catcher (me) and a blind umpire. The next year we were pirates, because it was a pirate themed party, and I was playing in an all-girl pirate band. My husband went as Smee from Peter Pan.

I've made costumes for my kids for the last 20+ years. Some of the best were Three Musketeers, and storm troopers and Darth Vader (which I made with poster board and duct tape, and a few different elbow and knee pads). My youngest was Billy Joe Armstrong last year and that turned out pretty good, too. I've made lots of Power Rangers masks for one child (construction paper). I like making costumes.

Re: Baby Blues, reminds me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEs2P_Ftasw

Karen