Super Hero Squad

Recently the girls have been really getting in to super heroes. Aaron's introduced them to many of the characters in the Marvel universe, initially through a show he found on Netflix called Super Hero Squad. It's aimed at kids, and is really cute - Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Falcon, Ms. Marvel, and Captain America are the main Squaddies, although they're occasionally joined by other heroes including Wolverine, Dr. Strange, and Spiderman. They all live in Super Hero City and fight Dr. Doom and his Lethal Legion, MODOK and Abomination, who sometimes get help from Dr. Octopus, Mystique, Mole Man, and other rando residents of Villainville.

For whatever reason, the girls have gotten incredibly into this show, and the whole concept of super heroes, so we're going with it. Ella's favorite is Wolverine, and Maisie's is Silver Surfer. We've gotten some super hero Lego sets and Squinkies, checked Super Hero Squad books out of the library, and now... we have costumes!

Thanks to zulily, a daily deal site, I found some adorable superhero costumes that I thought would be perfect for Halloween. Ella's is American Dream, who's Captain America's daughter. Maisie's is Spidergirl, Spiderman's daughter.

But once they arrived, there was clearly no way they were going to wait for Halloween. Why would you wait, when you could wear them out to the pizza restaurant??

So here's Captain Dream (Ella's conflation of American Dream and the Cap):

 And a VERY sassy Spidergirl:

They're ready to hero up!