The stripes and Octonauts symbol are cut from felt and attached with craft glue. Then I topstitched the bottom edge of the brim closed. Then I made a slightly domed hat portion, cut it into a circle to fit inside the brim, and machined-sewed it to the inner brim piece only, about halfway down the brim. To make the captain hat, I made two identical felt brims, sewed them together into tubes, sewed them together along the top edge, then turned them inside out, pressed, and topstitched the top edge. I made at least 4 hat brims before I found one that fit correctly on the fleece hat. Then, I free-handed the fleece captain hat, but my math/measuring skills were NOT WORKING. I tried to freehand the fleece pattern, but couldn't get a good fit, so I used a free pattern from Fleece Fun and added little fleece ears into the side seam. The chevrons are glued-on bits of craft felt. They're held together in the back with a velcro strip. I cut two identical pieces from the light blue felt and stitched them together. I made the collar by tracing the neckline of the t-shirt and sketching a collar shape. Mae was very excited about the Octo-compass on her belt, which consisted of scraps of craft felt held together by a combination of sewing and fabric glue. The belt is just a doubled rectangle of felt, held in the back with two strips of sew-on velcro. I made the hat, collar, and belt from white fleece and light blue felt purchased at Jo-Ann. (One of Mae's favorite Octonauts episodes features a Long Arm Squid, so it feels very appropriate that she refers to this blue t-shirt as a "long arm sleeve shirt.") Their clothes are a bit pricey (I used a coupon code), but it's surprisingly hard to find a matching shirt and sweats in a color other than black or gray anywhere else! I also ordered the rubber boots from Amazon. Me: "How many legs does Professor Inkling have?"įor the costume, I ordered the blue sweatpants and t-shirt from Primary. We were discussing how many legs different types of animals have, and I asked about Professor Inkling (the Octopus from Octonauts). Mae also got in a little "trick" on us this week. She was so excited about it that we had to take it with us on our mini-vacation last weekend. I will be the stream.We've enjoyed the Halloween haul, and Mae even shared her full-size Hershey bar with me. We did buy Kyle a Spider-Man costume, and asked him if he wanted to get dressed up but he told us that "I just want to be Kyle." They were up at Grandma and Grandpa's house and not a lot of trick-or-treating at the farm. Sorry no cute pictures of Kyle and Hayden all dressed up. Creature report."Īnd that is the tale of how a dumb, white guy was being brought to tears by a British-American children's television series. As she staggered away from the deathly green fog, she started laughing as she did her best imitation of the Octonauts and started singing "Creature report. Shife jumped off the couch like her pants were on fire but it was just her nostrils. She shrugged off my advisory and we started watching our show. Shife had entered the living room but I warned her that her nose was at risk if she sat by me on the couch. Fortunately for me, the air had cleared by the time Mrs. What the hell did I eat? Because whatever I put into my body was not happy and was expressing its disapproval with some paint peeling, stomach churning, underwear melting, dry heaving, hair removing, mind numbing farts. As she is putting the kids to bed, I am trying to solve the mystery of the day. Shife to join me in the living room so we can watch one of our TV shows before calling it a night. Let me also establish that my wife is funny. Now that creature report has been established. The creature report song is catchy and it definitely gets stuck in your head if the cartoon is on a few times a day which happens at the Shifley household. Well after the Octonauts complete an adventure, they get together to have a creature report but you know that already because you just watched the video. Kyle discovered "The Octonauts" a little bit ago, and it has become one of his new favorites. But for those who have not seen these delightful and stylized anthropomorphic animals, then please watch the video so you can hopefully enjoy and understand my story. If you spend quality time with a little person between the ages of 2 and 4 then you might be familiar with the cartoon "The Octonauts." If you indeed have had the pleasure of watching Captain Barnacles and his crew's mighty undersea adventures then no need to watch the video. How about a dumb, white guy being brought to tears by a British-American children's television series?
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