Decisions, decisions

How fickle are 4-year-olds.

 

At the moment, my Halloween preparations are in limbo because my son can't make up his mind on what he wants to be.

 

He is still obsessed with superheroes, so I was totally game on Superman.

 

He even got a cape for his birthday, so I thought putting together the Superman jumpsuit would be a piece of cake.

 

Then came the Robin Hood video and he wanted to be Robin Hood. My husband even made him a bow and I bought a sewing pattern on eBay for a Robin Hood outfit.

 

Then he changed his mind and wanted to be a Knight.

 

Then it was back to Superman. Then he wanted to be a pirate.

 

The pirate idea lasted more of a week, so I decided to act and started bidding on eBay for a pirate costume (which are cheap and plentiful these days).

 

Then he changed his mind again and I couldn't hold back a little bit of annoyance.

 

"I'm sorry, Mommy," he said. "I really want to be Batman."

 

Thankfully, I got outbid on the pirate outfit so I started looking for sewing patterns for a Batman outfit. (You'd think I would have learned my lesson by now).

 

Then I chatted on the phone with my old college roomie, who has two kids of her own, including a boy who is 4 months older than my son. That boy is Power Rangersobsessed.

 

So on my end of the phone conversation, I asked, "So he's going to be a Red Power Ranger for Halloween?"

 

My boy overheard that, so that was it. Now he wants to be a Red Power Ranger. Never mind that he has never actually watched one of those shows.

 

I think I may need to set a finite deadline on his ever changing moods so that I will actually have enough time to buy an outfit or buy a sewing pattern for it.