All Dressed Up to Paint the Town... Green?

Ellie and her friend Josie were playing downstairs a couple weeks ago when I realized I left the craft room door open. I realized it a little too late, though, and this is what I found:

They got a bath, and the dress up clothes went straight into the wash. Hooray for washable ink!

Halloween 2009

So... Halloween was a few weeks ago. But Leif promised a recap full of photos, so here it is!

This year I was in no mood to make a Halloween costume. I'm too cheap to buy one (because, who really pays $30 for a costume?!), and Robert wasn't volunteering. =D So I bribed Ellie into wearing one of her existing dress up outfits as a Halloween costume. She chose the purple fairy costume Grammee gave her for Christmas one year. How did I bribe her, you ask? Well, I told her that if she went as a fairy, I would put glitter all over her body and she could be sparkly. Every 3 year old girl's dream! It was perfect.

Of course, when people asked what she was going to be for Halloween, she told them she was going to be a princess with glitter all over her bottom. Eh, close enough.

So I armed myself with some glitter hair spray and Mary Kay Shimmeriffic Body Powder and went to work, making our little dress-up girl into an enchanted fairy. Here she is in all her sparkly glory...

And, in a nice change of pace from most Montana Halloweens, we had a warm day, so Ellie didn't even need to put on a snowsuit to go trick or treating! Since the inside light wasn't cooperating for pictures, Leif and Ellie trekked out to the back yard for a few snapshots. Of course, once the light started cooperating, Ellie stopped, so here's the best of what we got:

And, of course, a couple closeups of the sparkly hair...

Because we got invited to a couple Halloween parties this year, we decided not to have one of our own. I took Eliana to a kids' party at the Palmer-Warner home and she had a great time. She spent half of it playing by herself instead of with the other kids, but she had a great time. =D

After going to the Halloween party, Leif took Eliana and met up with the Richters and Gravings for some trick-or-treating. Ellie was very excited to get to go trick-or-treating with her friends!

After trick-or-treating, Leif took Eliana to another Halloween party while I stayed home and distributed candy to the kids who came by our house.

Ellie got quite a bit of loot, half of which was chocolate or caramel she couldn't have. We had fun separating the candy, though, and she got a few pieces each day from the "pure sugar" stash. She stretched her candy out for a little over a week, which I thought was pretty good!

Little Fairy Princess

We have a 3 year old girl. That means that sometimes our home is inhabited by a little fairy princess. Such was the case this week and we got pictures of the flittery little creature!

And what is a princess without kissing a frog?

Every time Eliana kissed the frog my mom would push the button that made the frog giggle. It was really cute! It had Eliana laughing so hard!

Here's one last look at our sweet little fairy princess...

These boots were made for walkin'

One day Ellie swiped my boots (my favorite boots, I might add!) and wore the around the house. They're a little big, but sadly not so big that she couldn't walk around just fine in them! Of course, she wouldn't let me get a picture of her, and here she's shutting the door on her pesky mother to get away from the camera, but I still got a shot in. =D And actually, I think the boots are a cute look for her!

Another weird thing I discovered the other day... If I need to I can wear Eliana's socks in a pinch. It's a little weird if you ask me.

Also, I pulled out my high school cheerleading uniform for Ellie to play dress up in and discovered that it's not as big on her as I might have expected. In fact, if I roll the waistband of the skirt once I don't even need to pin it or put a belt on her to keep it up. It fits her just fine.

Hmm.... She's only two and already the size gap between us is closing.

About a month ago....

... we went to Zoe's 3rd birthday party. While there Eliana played with Zoe's doctor set. Doesn't she make a cute little doctor?

one little, two little, three little indians....

Last week I made Eliana this little outfit and she spent a few days this week wearing it. I thought it was fitting for Thanksgiving week. =D

And now the saddest little indian....

And the silliest little indian....

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Last Friday we had Zoe over to play, and Taylor brought Corinne over to join in the fun, too. We pulled out Ellie's box of dress up clothes for the first time, and the girls had a blast! It was great to watch them put on "hats" (which is what Ellie called the headbands), necklaces, and various other pieces of clothing and carry around purses. THIS is part of what makes little girls so fun.

Checking out Zoe's attire



They had been standing in the doorway waving to each other saying, "Bye! Bye!" - It was priceless!



Cowboy Corinne



... and the Easter Bunny?