On Friday, the kids were not allowed to dress up at school. However, the YMCA allowed the children to bring their costume and put them on there. Thursday night Emily decided that she would dress up at the YMCA as "Princess super girl from Hawaii.
"Then, Friday night she decided to go trick-or-treating as "The princess' purple unicorn from Hawaii".
Notice the red shoes from the super girl costume.
I did a lot of patch work on Emily's clothes. See below. She is a little rough on the knees of her jeans. I added a few flowers for design measures. Luckily, I purchase the majority of her clothes second hand so when a hole is formed, I don't sweat it. She'll only get about two more months wear out of them anyway. It has never failed that by the end of the year, she change sizes. The other day when I picked Emily up from the YMCA, a counselor stated that Emily seemed to be getting taller. Her size 7 slim pants fit perfectly on her at the moment. However, in Emily's opinion fitting perfectly means they are too little and we need to buy three sizes bigger. Since she does prefer bigger clothes, it's easier to layer and that is what she loves to do.
There is just too little time in Emily's life here lately for t.v. She has been busy doing homework, more chores, more crafts, going to the library, going to brownie meetings, playing outside, and generally playing more with her toys. She even has stopped asking me if she can watch TV. In seven days she has only watched her TV on Sunday. Below is an example of how she plays with her toys. She dresses them up.
The only bad thing about her not watching TV is that when she gets a yellow mark from school, we can't punish her by taking the TV away. But I think we can figure something else out. However this week, Hartford and I decided to ignore her yellow mark. Come on people who hasn't made faces in the cafeteria?
Here's a picture of Emily and her Kindergarten teacher and her baby. Emily has told me that she stops by and sees Mrs. Gilford ever so often. Mrs. Gilford told me that she missed Emily, especially her afternoon conversations.
At the end of the night the children in grades K-2 did songs. Emily did an excellent job with her grade. At the very end of the night, prizes were given away. Emily didn't take it well that she didn't get a prize and she really didn't take it well that a little girl that has been mean to her won a prize.
These pictures were taken on I-26 going to Grandma's house in Virginia. Ugh, she wore her Sponge Bob shirt. I would get rid of the thing, but Emily would miss it and wouldn't believe me if I told her that she had outgrown it.
Emily loves getting her hair done in crazy styles.
Here's the finished product:
While Emily was getting her hair done, Hartford disappeared. I was glad the he returned especially when I saw the pork rinds that he was carrying.
After the Emily played on the hay bails, it was time to get lost in a field of corn.
As always, I walked behind them. Because if they followed me, we would be lost forever.
I love this picture. I think she looks so cute with her missing tooth.
I think this picture shows Emily's excitement. Now, image me yelling, "Wait for me or I'll get lost!"
The corn maze was a lot fun. Emily had a grand time even if the grasshoppers were trying to play with her and she didn't want them to play with her.
This picture was taken for the sole reason to prove that I was not crazy last year. Last year, I kept spotting a horse and as soon as I turned around, it was no where to be seen. Hartford and Emily never did see them and they had me believing that I was crazy.
Here's a picture of the creek that was on the other side of the road.
Once camp was set up Hartford relaxed.
And I took a few pictures of Emily playing.
Our campsite was next to the play ground. It was nice that Emily could play without me or Hartford standing over her, but it was a little noisy with laughter and whines of tattle taler's and Mothers saying, "be nice to your sister/brother."
