I got over my disappointment with the webertubes and dug through my old patterns. I decided to take the pattern I used for Dillon’s Frodo Halloween Costume (when he was 3) and edited it a bit to turn the middle earth ring bearer into the Griffyndor seeker. It was fairly challenging, and I spent a lot of time thinking about it prior to commencing the project.
Obviously the first step was to redesign the robe, which is maroon outside and gold inside, hooded, with a Griffyndor patch and a tie-closed front (we’re going with the Sorcerer’s Stone uniform here, they’ve changed over the years). So I figured out how I’d do the lining (basically make the same robe twice and sew the unfinished sides together), and then sized the whole thing up seven sizes or so as he’s grown a bit since he was three.
I worked on the robes all Sunday, and continued during the Super Bowl (pausing to make and consume some guacamole and a beer in the spirit of the evening). Rose and Charles sat and watched the first half of the game, eating the rest of the chips and guac and thoroughly enjoying themselves. After the halftime show, I told Rose she had to go to bed. She asked, “Is Daddy going to keep watching the game after I go to bed?” I told her yes.
She asked, “why can’t he pause it and we can finish tomorrow?”  My kids do not understand broadcast television. We never watch TV on the TV.  We used to watch PBS when they stayed home sick, but these days they are well-versed enough on the PS3 menus for Rose to give her grandma a Netflix tutorial and show her how she could turn on an episode of the Backyardigans.  So I had to explain to her that the TV was going to keep playing the game whether we had it on or not. (We don’t have any DVR situation so we’re just going to leave it at that for now.) And she was okay and went to bed.
Here’s a picture of where I stopped with the robes for the evening – I still have to finish the sleeves and attach the hood. And hopefully the patch I ordered on eBay comes before this party, or I don’t know what I am going to do.