this superhero

This week I've been making capes for my children.  Because capes are, bar none, the most requested dress-up item in our house.  Up till now these poor babies have been bringing me scraps of fabric, baby blankets, towels, anything that remotely resembles a cape, to tie around their necks. 

And so I took pity on them and got some shiny cape fabric. It was requested that the capes be able to "blow in the wind". 

And oh, how capes have changed our lives forever.  They're now all superheroes, all the time. 

This one refers to himself and anyone wearing a cape as a superhero.  As in, "Dis superhero is gonna go OUTside," and "Hey, superhero!  Why are you climbing dat tree?"

An alternate identity, as easy to put on and off as buttoning the one big button on the front of a shiny cape.  Two questions: 

How did we ever live without capes?

What colors do I want on mine?

~MB~

Comments

[Marci Watson]

I want a cape too! I never got one growing up. You're never too old, right?

[Amber]

Seriously, I want one of the capes with hoods that you made yourself before you got married. That still sounds like the coolest thing ever.