Halloween Fun: Vienna Mom Dons Costumes, Teaches Her Kids to Be Unique

VIENNA, VA -- It's that time of year, with Halloween just a week a way, it's not all that unusual to see someone dressed up outside a party store waving passersby to come on inside. (We saw a "Gumby" character waving at cars this weekend.)

But if you live in Vienna, you might see a mom or two in costume at their kids' bus stop. Vienna mom Julie Mudrick is teaching her kids how to have fun and be unique when she shows up at their bus stop in a different costume each day, she says on her Instagram account, where's she's documenting the fun and has is keeping up a tradition she started several years ago. She has added a hashtag to her posts dubbing them #BusStopCostumes.

How fun a mom is Mudrick? So far, she's posted photos of herself in getups from "Spiderman" to Alexander Hamilton to Voldemort from "Harry Potter."

Get some Halloween inspiration with Mudrick's costumed characters on her Instagram.

If you search for #BusStopCostumes on Instagram, you'll find other parents dressed up too in costumes featuring characters Cruella de Vil (the villain from "The One Hundred and One Dalmatians"), Peter Pan, Jasmine from "Aladdin," Mary Poppins, Buddy (from "Elf"), Winnie the Pooh, a Minion, Popeye, Buzz Lightyear, Olaf (from "Frozen,) the Wicked Witch of the West from "Wizard of Oz," Indiana Jones, Chewbacca from "Star Wars" and more.

Why do they do it? One mom says:

"My kids reactions? Awesome. #ohlucylaughed and told her friends that it was for mommas blog (guilty!) and Seth just shook his head and asked "why"? To which I said- why not?"

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