Playing Dress-up

This weekend was all about playing dress-up, beginning with Halloween on Friday. Here is our Busy Little Bee:

Our friends Erik & Kim invited us to hang out with them & borrow their neighborhood for Trick-or-Treat since not much of that goes on around our condo. It also worked out perfectly because they live in Old Milford where many of my former students live, so I got to see some of my very-grown-up little ones (who are now 7th graders & I had them as 2nd graders). Josie is too young for candy (and don't even get us started on the peanut allergy & Halloween) but she enjoyed a picnic of peas and turkey in the front yard while all the kids came up to get candy.
I thought I'd include a short video of her in her costume as well, because there's something more fun about seeing her buzz around in it than just seeing the photos. We'll call this one "the barking bee" because she was too busy "woof, woofing" at Kim & Erik's dog to bother learning how to actually "buzz".



And - before I go on to other dress-up festivities from this weekend - BIG PROPS to our friends & neighbors Chris and Nicki who actually bought this bee costume for Josie. All we had to do was add our own wings and body suit and voila! It was SO sweet of them to pick it up for Josie when they saw it at the Thrift Store and knew we didn't have a costume yet. We have such great friends!



In other dress-up news - here is Josie's new snowsuit. She looks a little bit like Barney in it, but she's so adorable. Actually, if you think this one makes her look like like your favorite big purple dinosaur, you should've seen her in the 24 month size. This one is actually 18 months - we took it and exchanged it for a 24 month - brought that home to try on & then took it back and swapped it for this one again. I can't wait to take her out to run around in the snow!
Totally unrelated to the snowsuit, here is Josie saying one of her favorite new words - "Up!" Her vocabulary is really taking off. She also said "Go" tonight. The whole "Up" thing is so cute. She's been using sign language to communicate her wants/needs for a couple of months now, but there's just something so sweet about her walking over to me, tugging on my leg and saying "Up." See for yourself... :)



In the most exciting dress-up news from the weekend (according to Josie) - we went shoe shopping!!! I promise that Louie & I started with the best of intentions to get Josie her first pair of totally sensible, practical big-girl shoes but this is what the three of us agreed on. Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Josie's new kitty boots....


Here is Josie wearing her new kitty boots... (insert your own "Meeooowww") Here is a photo of just how happy Josie's new kitty boots make her...
And here is a video of Josie dancing with her new boots, which she either wore, carried, or spun around with for several hours over the weekend. She really does love them & if we would've let her, I'm sure she would've slept with them too.



Here she is just before bathtime in nothing but her diaper and boots. Clearly, she was quite pleased with herself and I think she's perfectly adorable in all three of these photos so I had to share all of them with you.