Superhero Outfits for Baby

This week our dear friend, Phil Call, was in town for some AP English conferences on Ball State campus.  We know Phil and his wonderful wife, Kim, from church and college classes (both graduated with us in May 2011).  Phil was in a lot of my English Ed classes and shared Honors professors with Kyle and Kim lived just down the hall from me in the dorms freshman year.  After graduation, Phil got a teaching position in Warsaw, which took our great friends away from us :(  We sure do miss them and their little boy, Pete!

I got a surprise facebook message on Monday morning this week from Kim letting me know that Phil was going to be in town and had a gift to drop off for us.  What could it be?!  I had no idea because it was so out of the blue!  We arranged to have Phil for dinner and later in the week he stayed over with us and we had some very good times catching up and reminiscing.  Phil, it turned out, seemed just as excited as Kim to see us open our gift, and for good reason:

LOOK WHAT KIM MADE US!  

Isn't she spectacular?!  As I told Kyle, this outfit is just too good--it has to be our "Baby's First Photoshoot" outfit!  Ironically, we'd talked about dressing our little girl up as a superhero and taking tons of pictures and putting them all upstairs (because of the superhero theme), but I don't think we ever really shared that idea with anyone!  The onesie is absolutely adorable and can be used again for either gender (smart thinking, Kim!).  The skirt is adjustable and the baby legs will be all too handy.  To top it all off, Kim made little matching clips to go on headbands!  Now, although this didn't come with the gift, we also MIGHT have already acquired a felt Batman kiddie-mask from Target a month or so ago that would also look great for pictures.

Included was this note:

Megan and Kyle,

I've been holding onto this onesie for you for over a year and through at least one move.  I thought it was perfect and had to get it when I found it.  Hopefully the girly-version is acceptable.  You don't have to use the tutu if you don't want to, but I made it extra over the top just to make sure.  I included two sizes of headbands as I can't remember how big a newborn's head is.  It has been too long!  Hopefully it will start a beautiful collection of geeky girl stuff!  

Live long and prosper,
Kim, Phil, and Pete 

And there's one for the baby book!  I have such talented, wonderful friends.  Thank you, Kim and Phil!

Originally when deciding to do pictures, we'd thought about doing Wonderwoman.  Guess what we spied in the Fourth of July section of the kids' clothes at Walmart the other day?

Perfect!  It is a little big, so we'll have to cinch it for any pictures, but we're not complaining.  We also MIGHT have a felt Wonderwoman headpiece from Target that we bought at the same time as the Batman mask...so I haven't really decided whether we'll do both superheroes for newborn pictures, or save the Wonderwoman outfit for next year.  What do you think?