A Twist of Things to Come

But my house was still full of kids until quite late. :) Everyone was enthusiastic and got along well, but for one kid who was... basically obnoxious to everyone, insisting that he was a cop, or that he wanted to be a cop in the movie. He annoyed everyone enough, that when it came time to have the zombie horde overwhelm a survivor, I chose him for the part. (For one, he wasn't in Zombie Makeup, but there were other reasons).

Let's just say that this led to a fairly convincing zombie mauling. I will try to post the raw of it to show you. It was giggle-worthy. At one point, that same kid was playing with Big Boy's Nerf Machine Gun, and my husband said to me, "If he breaks it, we'll have to lie and tell {Big Boy} that {other kid} broke it, because he'd kill [obnoxious kid]."

Big Boy has issues with not wanting to boss people around (or else not being very good at it) so we took his notes and directed the kids until we got the shots he'd listed. (Big Boy and i went out to dinner together Friday night and I took notes on note cards of what he said he wanted. Then we went shopping and generally had a good time talking and stuff. Golly, I love my kids!)

So, when all that was done, we ate pizza and watched the raw footage. There was this one kid named Kevin who was awesome at zombie shambling, even though he wasn't in make-up. I gave him a bloody bandage so he could pass as a new zombie in the group scenes, and he was a survivor in close-ups. Basically, everyone had a blast. Big Boy's Girl-who-is-a-friend *snorffle* came already in costume, with her hair all wild and sort of a "hot zombie" thing going on.

I really like that girl, and her mama. Hot zombie and her little sister may spend a little time with over the school break, which could be fun.

Another kid's mom brought a bunch of old t-shirts that her husband had worn to nearly-rags, all cut up and stuff. She said do whatever we wanted with them, and dispose of them as we saw fit when we were done. Isn't that great? I have totally given local parents short shrift on the coolness.

It was a long day, but a really, really fun one.