Less than Twelve Parsecs

For Mara's second Halloween, we wanted a costume that she can enjoy and interact with herself, rather than just dressing her up for our own amusement. She is particular about what she wears. Our recent trip to the aquarium had revealed a fascination with jellyfish that is probably deeply seeded in her paternal genes. Thus we decided that Mara's costume this year should be a jellyfish. So Mara became the Bunch of Sea Creatures  that a large Jellyfish is eating with its long tentacles! The floating Jellyfish was quick and fun to make, we'll add a blog post soon with details on how to build it and link it here. This mini-project took about 40 minutes once we had all the materials. For the outfit, we sewed little sea creatures on a blue shirt, and throughout the day she liked to pull them and show them to us. A blue fish came off eventually but Mara stopped and picked it up and held it in her hand the rest of the time, so she was definitely fond of her decorations.