For Yassy, there was no discussion. She wanted to be a cat. Not surprised there. I thought hers would be easy, just needed to find cat ears for her, and just dress her all up in black ... a fiesty black cat. But I had one day to get the two costumes done and it is almost impossible to find a plain black long sleeved t-shirt. I found ears but they looked more like zebra ears. Then, I remembered she had a zebra print jumper. Ahh, she could be a zebra! Easy. I showed her the zebra ensemble and she was not impressed. She refused to wear the ears or the romper. Sera sensing my desperation (there was no time to whip up another costume) said excitedly, "Yassy, Yassy ... cats also have black and white stripes. You can be a stripey cat!" Yassy, evidently liked that idea and started jumping with Sera to their new, 'Stripey Cat' song. Phew, that was close! And then, upon further discussion with grandma, she added more finesse to 'stripey cat' when she said Yassy could be a white tiger. Ahh, that I knew Yassy would love.
So on Thursday, we dropped off Little Red Riding Hood, who absolutely loved her red hood and her black shoes ... and the feistiest white tiger with the meanest growl.
Just woke up, a little sleepy and grumpy ... looking for lizards on the ceiling
She has already decided that Johan will be the big bad wolf when he returns
On the way to school, we added more make up to finish up her tiger look
Little Red Riding Hood and her side kick, the white tiger
