Halloween 2015: We're all mad here.

Ask a kid what they want to be for Halloween every day of the week, and you're likely to get a different answer each time. After last year's sibling costume, LG had various ideas for a followup. Astronaut and alien, spider and fly, World War 1 Flying Ace and Red Baron. Then, we were listening to "Monster Mash" by Bobby 'Boris' Pickett sometime over the summer (like you do), and LG suddenly announced that she was going to be a Mad Scientist, and we never looked back.

G2, on the other hand, had a different answer every time until we pinned him down to something in September. And what grand idea did this 2-and-a-half-year-old boy have? Super hero? Ninja? Octonaut? Nope. He told Hollie he wanted to be a moth. Far be it from us to deny a child the costume of his dreams, so we dutifully looked up moth wings on Etsy. When we couldn't find what we wanted there (namely, anything other than a set of glitter luna moth wings for $75), we decided to make our own.

Since the children weren't accessorized with one another, we figured we were going to need to dress up. My costume was easy; with a lab coat and butterfly net, I'd be an entomologist. Hollie was going to be a little harder, but LG came through with another brilliant idea while they were searching the aisles of our local pop-up Halloween store. They'd get as many animal ears, tails, snouts and gloves as they could, and Hollie would be LG's mad science creation.

At the last minute, I decided I was LG's assistant, seeking out the rare and cunning moth boy. And thus, a family costume was born.

"That's a nice story, Matt," I hear you saying to yourself, "but I'm here for pretty much one reason. Where's the sloppy Photoshoppy?"

Your patience will be rewarded, dear reader.

Yes, she's huge, but you try covering up Gene Wilder and his hair with a 5 year old.

I like to think her hair was equally inspired by Frederick Fronkensteen and Sweeney Todd.

Hide your sweater, hide your blankets, cuz these moths are eating everything up in here.
(This joke is funny, but Hollie would like to add a scientific editorial note.
The larva of these toddler moths would eat your sweaters.
Enjoy the rest of the post.)

But the best is yet to come. Inspired by last year's Annie poster, I figured I needed to get the whole family into a single image.

"Matt," I hear you say, "Who is 1974's Teri Garr?"
No one. Because you don't mess with 1974 Teri Garr.

 Happy Halloween, everyone! See you next year!