Superhero Capes

Landon is very into the whole superhero thing these days, and loves capes. I have been considering buying some or making some for a while, and today I finally decided I needed to make my first attempt. Now, my crafty sewing friends and my seamstress, amazingly creative mother-in-law will laugh at my "ghetto", no sewing machine capes (I'm open to any offers for perfectly stitched capes too!), but the boys loved them. For the past week our whole family has been sick, and I can't seem to shake the cough, so I was running out of ways today to keep the boys busy that were less energy-intensive for me when I remembered the cape idea, and decided to use an old fitted white sheet, cut out a cape, and tie the elastic together on the ends (the beauty of this whole thing is that the fitted sheet comes complete with all of the necessary elements, plus the already sewn in elastic pouch!). Ghetto magic....superhero capes ready to color and decorate! There was quite the sparkle in Landon's eye and a cute grin on his face as he slipped the first prototype cape over his head, and then colored on it. I ended up using sharpie markers to draw the Batman and Superman logos on two of the capes, and then Landon and Lincoln were off to fight the bad guys. It was neat for me to see Lincoln excited about the capes, and how quickly he raced off to chase Landon...as they would run by he would say, "fast", and I could see he was checking out his cape flapping as he ran! I have to admit, I am proud of my little mommy creative moment in the midst of my sleep-deprived, sick state.