It’s not often triplets find a suitable family costume so when one mom saw Pixar’s Brave featured three brothers, she knew it was only a matter of time before she’d dress her boys up. On her blog Three at Once she says she spent a month making their costumes for a Halloween trip to Disneyland. “The whole night the boys loved the attention they were getting for their costumes and it was nice to have them dressed as Disney characters,” she says. “All night they insisted on saying hi to all of the little girls dressed as Merida saying ‘it’s our sister.’”

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When you ask your child what they want to be for Halloween and they respond with “Princess Nyan Cat,” the only possible response is “yes.”

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Writes Tumblr user brightcopperpenny,

“I made my three-year-old niece her first convention/Halloween costume this year. If you ask her who she is dressed as, she’ll reply, ‘Tiny Princess Captain America!’

On Halloween, we discovered that if you point to a kid in Captain American costume and ask her who he’s dressed as, she will also reply, ‘Tiny Princess Captain America!’”

Good God, that’s adorable. Like, more-adorable-than-Chris-Evans adorable. Luckily for all the other Tiny Princess Captain America wannabes out there, brightcopperpenny has posted a detailed tutorial on her Website on how she altered two commercially available patterns to make the costume. Check out more pictures under the jump.

Bryan Silva is a professional artist and sculptor, whose eleven-year-old daughter wanted to go as a witch for Halloween this year. Luckily, he knew just how to augment a black pointy had and a broomstick. With a terrifying facial transformation. And apparently this was just a test. After trying on the prosthetic, the family went out to buy the rest of the costume… without removing it.

Halloween. You’re doing it right. Here’s a before pic of Ms. Silva below.

Yesterday morning we shared a single photo of an awesome dad who built a power loader costume complete with a tiny Ripley, played, of course, by his own daughter. Yesterday afternoon, we received an email with a link to this video and a special message:

I check in with your site every day, and I was totally excited to see you posted the photo of my baby’s Alien Loader Halloween Costume! …I really appreciate all you do for girl geek culture. I secretly hope my daughter will grow up a proud girl geek of the type you promote every day.

And after that, of course we had to show it to you guys. Here’s a dad and his proud geek girl off to a very good start. (P.S., viewers, make sure you stay until the :37 mark.)

Redditor rdt156 snapped this picture of his buddy’s Halloween costume, which was put together in three days. I bet the baby’s costume took even longer! According to rdt156, “She was super content. Loved all the attention and didn’t make a peep. When it was baby bedtime, mom took her home and he swapped her out for a stuffed monkey.”

Previously in Alien

Considering Marvel’s The Avengers made over $1.5 billion at the box office this year we’re not too surprised to hear the superhero characters will be filling the streets this Halloween. Yes, they even beat Batman. Again. (That was hard for me to write.) Which other movie characters will you see collecting candy next week? Read on to find out.

When we gave you our suggestions for Halloween costumes, we left out a few important things and for that we truly apologize. Inanimate objects have feelings too and they want to dress up just like you or I. So here are a few ideas for your mattress, shoe, windows, and more! We don’t want to spoil our favorite, you’ll figure it out.

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Big Bird is getting a lot of press these days. Most recently, Buzzfeed revealed Sesame Street Workshop issued a cease and desist order on Yandy.com for selling the above costume and more “sexy” versions of their characters without permission. Update: Yandy.com emailed us to let us know that they considered this post to be using their already watermarked image without attribution and asked us to include a link. They even suggested some html to use! How nice. Here it is:

<a href=”http://www.yandy.com“>Yandy.com Costumes</a>

We’ve shown you our list of 10 Halloween costumes you could use this year but what if you really want to put no effort at all into your costume? WeLoveFine.com comes to the rescue with their costume shop! It consists of not just regular t-shirts you could pass off as costumes (including a TARDIS) but casual dresses (some with capes), and these absolutely fantastic My Little Pony hoodies. Take a look!