Iron Man Costume

You want to know what happens when you take an eight year old boy to a new Marvel movie? Yep, he comes home and wants to be one! J-Bird took it upon himself to create an IronMan costume. We went to Wal-Mart (my mistake for taking him with me....) and he found new and improved masks there. My gut and instant reaction was you already have one of those.

No, he informed me, he has two. One is too heavy for his face. (Portland sister bought it and it actually shoots foam bullets from the mask and it is kinda heavy for his little face if worn ALL day, which if you are Iron Man you have to wear it all day, or at least have it ready when evil comes.)

And the other one smells. (Okay, the kid has a point. The other mask we found when exploring Santa Fe Lake once. It was during a really DRY summer in Kansas and the lake was dry. We were walking where 8-10 feet of water normally hangs out and much to our WONDERFUL discovery, was an Iron Man Mask. Some poor soul lost it off their boat, but TAH-DAH, we found it at the bottom of the lake. Bottom of lake = horrible smell)

J-Bird did have birthday money burning a whole in his pocket! Why not? Buy another mask. Well, you just can't have a mask---you have to have the whole costume. Sigh. I do have a new sewing machine and he DID happen to find a brand new with tags still on it white shirt in his closet. It was perfect. He even drew the pattern and brought it home from school. (REALLY?!?! Aren't they supposed to be learning and stuff? Nope, they had free DRAW time. JUST MY LUCK.)

We were off and going. He was measuring and designing. Now, I just had to cut and sew. JUST. What do kids think? J.U.S.T. Yep, let me put on my Super MOM cape and I'll get right on that...


He loves the costume. I hand sewed it so I could take it a part and not have to rip out too many stitches. I don't think it looks like IronMan, but he LIT up! He loved it. It was HIS vision, so whatever works.

My own little Iron Man!