As the mom of toddlers, Mandy Moore knows it's all about making memories, even if they may be too young to fully remember. In an exclusive interview with People, she revealed how "excited" she is to come up with family holiday traditions now that her boys are getting older, and what her son Gus might be for Halloween.
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Creating new holiday traditions is bringing her joy
Gus already has options for his Halloween costume
Mandy explained that Gus is "really into dragons," but he also "just started watching Peter Pan for the first time." She also shared that her mother-in-law got Gus a Peter Pan costume and "he wore it to the grocery store."
"When I put the dragon costume on him the other day, I was like, 'Oh, this just came in the mail. Do you want to try it on?' Thinking maybe he'd want to put on the tail or the wings or something, and he wanted to put on the whole outfit, and then he went to the park as the dragon that day. And I was like, 'OK, that's real progress,'" she said.
Her boys were the inspiration for her latest collaboration
Mandy recently created a winter-themed capsule collection for Gymboree that is inspired by her first winter being a mom of two. They spent their winter on the East Coast, which served as an ideal holiday backdrop.
"I had a newborn and a not even 2-year-old, and I think a lot of the inspiration for what this collection became sort of stemmed from our time here and stemmed from getting to experience winter through their eyes, their first real, proper winter because we don't get winter on the West Coast," she explained.
She is making the most of this time while the boys are young
Mandy said that Gus' first experience in snow was a big inspiration, and that it has been really special to share the collection with her family.
"We all got to take photos in them, and they're still amenable to me matching them, obviously, because they don't have the wherewithal yet to object," she teased.
