Happy Halloween!!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween. R had a great time trick-or-treating. The kids both got decked out right after dinner for a photo shoot--it's harder than you might think to get two kids to look at the camera and smile!I was all set to delete this picture from the camera--R is getting upset with RUS because he was grabbing at her wings--except for the fact that I fell in love with RUS's smile in it. I have a hard time getting pictures of him with this smile, and he smiles so much you wouldn't think it'd be that hard!All along she's been adamant that she wanted to be a butterfly for Halloween, and because J and I like to get the kids involved in "making" their own costumes, we had her make her wings. J cut out the shape from foam board and R decorated them herself with markers and glittery glue. Here's a video of her decorating them! For awhile she also wanted her BLUE butterfly to have an orange mask, so J made one for her out of orange felt and pipe cleaners, but all 3 times we got decked out in the costume, when it came down to it she didn't want to wear the mask. I wrapped pipe cleaners around one of her headbands to make antennae, and the tutu I ordered online, I just love it! It's going to be a great addition to the dress-up box post-Halloween.

Movie Star Glasses

While I was at work today, J and R made movie star glasses. They were too long to make out of one piece of construction paper, so of course they are taped in the middle. They're awesomely nerdy movie star glasses. Before dinner but after the pictures were taken, R added some flower stickers to make them flower-iffic awesomely nerdy movie star glasses.

Even More Princessy!

Yesterday R's day care was closed for one of their scheduled professional development days, and she happened to want to wear her party dress. I said what the heck and let her. Then she wanted a ponytail. Usually she won't let me do anything to her hair, so I was excited to pull it back. Then she wanted her tiara. Yoiks! Then she told me she needed me to find a blanket so she could have a cape. Goodness gracious, here she is, turning into a real princess before my very eyes! Then she put on her fancy Tinkerbell ring and her sandals and agreed to a photo shoot.

Princess for the Evening

R had to miss the first birthday party we've been invited to because she got sick--throwing up and very wheezy--the night before the party. She was SO excited and had been talking about the party over and over again and I was so sad for her to miss it. When she brought it up today I had to tell her she couldn't go and she just bawled. I lost it, too and cried along with her. I was also disappointed to miss it myself as it was going to be at the brand-new Delaware Children's Museum and I was really curious what the place was like and what kind of things they would do for a party.

Anyway, she was feeling much more chipper by evening, and we had fun being princessy. Here she is with her tiara and bows!

OH NO. I'm seriously going to cry. It's a long story, but I lost the picture. I only had one. And it's gone. It was seriously SUCH a cute picture. I know it's not the end of the world but I am really sad.

I like to call these her movie star glasses

Accessorizing with Mrs. Potato Head

Grandma and Grandpa were in town the weekend before last and brought R her very first Mrs. Potato Head. Naturally, R wanted to wear all of Mrs. Potato Head's stuff, too. The glasses were far too narrow for her head, so we pulled out last year's sunglasses and stuck the earrings on her ears. She loved them. She kept shaking her head so she could feel them dangling off of her earlobes. Of course they didn't stay on long, though.

I LOVE the bear suit!

R wore the bear suit again today. We even took her out shopping with it on and she got all kinds of compliments. Lesson for those of you with kids: People love babies in bear suits!

The Force is strong with this one

Ok, sorry for the cheesy title. But I love how R, wearing my jacket in this picture, looks like she's dressed as a very short young (or incredibly old) Jedi.

and here she is turning around looking very pleased with herself: