In years past, we have had everything from superheroes such as Batman & Superman, to our everyday heroes like firefighters and policemen. This year was no different. All 3 of my boys chose a specific hero to emulate.
Dallin chose to be a BYU football player (surprise, surprise). Sometimes, I feel like we give too much glory, and definitely too much money, to athletes, especially professional ones. I do however realize that there is a lot of hard work and determination that goes into perfecting skills to be good enough to play on college and professional levels and those values are something I don't mind him admiring.
Ben chose to be a freedom defending army guy and a cute one at that. Unselfishly defending our country and getting to carry a really awesome walkie talkie and gun; definitely hero-ish.
(Making his toughest army man face.)
From the day we first began talking about costumes for this year Ashton, knew who he wanted to be. He wanted to be a superhero of different a kind this year...
... his school teacher, Mr. Z.
And he wasn't the only one...
(The Z Squad)
...two other boys in the class did the same.
Of course, in this picture it was Halloween and even heroes like to dress up, so Mr. Z was pretending to be Wolverine, but on regular school days this superhero dons his suit of slacks, dress shirt, and tie and sports his extra cool accessory-spiky hair. And between the combination of suit and hair he unleashes his superpowers on unsuspecting 5th graders actually making school a great place they want to be, inspiring them to work harder, and simply to be better.
We could certainly use more superheroes like that.
8 comments:
Don't forget the super hero that carries their sons helmut when he gets tired! :D
The world needs more heros. Your sons chose some pretty darn good one.
P.S. Tell Ashton I'll be his best friend if he dresses up like Sister Rubow next year! :D
Cute boys. One of the girls asked me the other day if we were going to start buying boy dress-up clothes for the dress-up box. I guess we will be into superheros before too long. But what was Emma for Halloween?
Rachel- I couldn't forget that superhero, because he is thee Ultimate superhero. He has the uncanny super power of putting up with me. ;) BTW- Does hero status still count if we kept all the chocolate he "accidentally" collected in that helmut?
Megan- C will be such an awesome superhero. It is really fun seeing which one they take to.
I'm going to get to the rest of Halloween in another post complete with pics of Emma and her costume.
Awesome!
What great heroes! Your boys picked some great heroes. Maybe someday I'll be someone's hero. ;D
Wow - way to inspire with the kids. Mine dress up as things like, skeletons, goblins, knights, elves, we had a genie... and of course, when they were little they were various animals as well.
How cool it is to see kids dressing up like HEROES. I like it! :D
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