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18 October 2010
Halloween help..→[More:]I need ideas for what to wear for halloween. Please help!
Difficulty: I swallowed a basketball (8 months pregnant.)
PS...I'm black.
PPS...i'll have a 2 year old Barney following me.
When I was 8 months pregnant we were in a new neighborhood and we didn't get any trick or treaters at all. Then at 9pm the doorbell rang and it was a teenaged boy dressed like a pregnant woman. He got all our candy.
Otherwise, there are lots of ideas out in google-land. I like the ones where you paint your belly and it's a feature of the costume. Basketball, baseball, jack-o-lantern, globe, pumpkin in a patch. Here's a bunch of ideas.
I TOTALLY misread this post at first glance as a riddle. Why is it that an image of the interrogation droid from Star Wars popped into my head??
You could actually go as a basketball, that might be kind of funny. Or paint your stomach to look like a jack o' lantern (if your modest, you could just sew a panel on a green shirt or something). Or a dinosaur egg, to keep with the Barney theme.
I found a few suggestions online and provide the less offensive ones:
* Pregnant nun
* Pregnant cheerleader
* Pregnant bride
* Pregnant angel
* Pregnant cat (attach lots of nipples to a black outfit)
I was also tickled by this maternity T shirt, which glows in the dark, and this idea for your expanded area, though I'd probably paint the word on a Tshirt or something else that is warmer than paint on bare skin.