Don't rain on my parade

Aubree's school has a fun tradition of having a Book Character Parade. Each of the kids is supposed to dress up like a character from a book and then carry the book in the parade. Aubree decided to go as Fancy Nancy

She was a very cute Fancy Nancy, her one request was to have curly pony tails so we rag curled her hair in the pony tails and she loved it.


It was freezing, she wore a long jacket but forgot it and her book in her classroom. The kindergarteners got to sit and watch all the older classes and then be in the parade and the end. Aubree was thrilled to watch the other classes and guess what the kids were.
Hayley was so excited to see Aubree and have her wave at her
I was really impressed with all the teachers and staff they all dressed up. There are 8 kindergarten classes so each of the teachers dressed up like an animal from Eric Carlisle Brown Bear Brown Bear what do you see. Her is Aubree's teacher as the purple cat
It was cold but totally worth it.

No pictures please...

At Hayley's preschool last week she got to dress up both days! She was thrilled. She had decided to be Rapunzel for Halloween, so I thought she would dress up as that. Boy was I wrong! Monday night as Hayley was getting into bed she declared she was going to dress up like a unicorn for school tomorrow. When I tried to explain to her that we didn't have a costume for that she got very upset and said please mama? I decided I had two options; 1: make it a fight the next morning after Aubree and Eli went to school or 2: figure out how to make a unicorn horn. I chose the latter. While Eli and a buddy were studying I made this, which I think turned out pretty cute:
The next morning she chose her outfit and was thrilled with the horn. However she didn't want her picture taken.
After a lot of compromising she let me take one picture if she could play one game on the computer before school. (which happens to be her new favorite thing)
One picture but no smile, I'll take it!

On Thursday she decided to be Minnie Mouse, which she dressed up like last year so that was easy:
But again not thrilled to get her picture taken, she finally let Eli take a picture of her when she got to school with her friends:
She made a very cute Minnie if I do say so myself.

We can fix it right!

While getting ready for a visit from Grandma Aubree's closet door fell off. So Eli and Hayley came to the rescue. Eli looked at Hayley and said get your tools :She loves to help fix anything, she also likes to fix things that aren't broken. She was a big help and was very patient for her turn to help:When it was finally her turn she was thrilled:Her one complaint after the door was fixed and the glue was drying was that she only needed one tool in her tool box and she needed to use them all. So if you are in the need for a handy woman Hayley is your gal.