As mentioned here M WAS Buzz Lightyear when he was younger. He dressed this way all the time. Only the rocket was added to the outfit for Halloween. His brother was an eagle that year. D really got into his character. His arms did not go down the whole time we were walking around town! He soared.
M was also a prolific artist. Here are some of his Toy Story illustrations. If you have seen the movie at least a gazillion times as I have, I am sure you can recognize the army men parachuting down beside the jump rope.
Here we have Rex, Ham, and the army men carrying the baby monitor.
And of course, Woody and Buzz.
I fell in love with these drawings when he made them. I started doing them in bluework. (redwork with blue thread.)
Like many projects I start, they get buried under new projects and resurface periodically. I like working on these on and off as they remind me of when the boys were small and how we did things we never thought we would do before we had children. We went to Burger King and got the Woody doll. Then B drove around to all the Burger Kings in the "tri-county area" trying to get the Buzz Lightyear give away doll. I don't think we have been to a Burger King since!After the boys had the Buzz toy they both wanted to play with it and have it in their bed at night. This is when they REALLY learned to take turns. They each had a night with Buzz and then a night with Woody. For years after that we called turn taking "Buzz-Woody."M does not know that I am working on this. Unless of course he is reading this blog while he is at school. Perhaps this would make a fun graduation gift in a few years.Don't you think a quilt out of these would look great in his dorm?
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