Fancy Dress Day

Sera and I discussed ideas on what she wanted to go as - a fairy, a princess (groan!) and the winner, Little Red Riding Hood! Perfect, I thought to myself. I'd read that story to her many times and it has become one of her favourites. It was, after a quick search online for some references, a very popular costume for kids and adults. Ha ha. The red hood was the essential component and Sera reminded me about the black shoes and the frilly socks. Right, that's also important!

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