the peanuts movie

we were all dragging a little bit this morning from our grand birthday celebration trip, but we got ourselves together enough to make our way to the dollar movie - the peanuts movie. the kids had watched the movie already with papa and nana during our trip to kansas and loved it then. i was excited to watch it with the. we were so late that the only seats together we could find were in the very front row. not ideal but not as awful as i was expecting.

 manning went at batman. naturally. love.

100th day of school

today is the 100th day of school for kindergarteners. the students were asked to dress how they would look if they lived to be 100 years old. mason would have nothing to do with it. nothing. i don't think mason has ever had such a strong opinion about anything. i couldn't even get him to wear the suspenders he wore in the wedding over the summer. nothing.

he did enjoy the 100th day activities though. (his teacher shared this picture of him.)

his teacher had an app on her phone that made the students who did not dress up that day at least look old. mason wouldn't even look at it according to his teacher. we thought it was pretty funny though when he brought it home. love.

maddux dresses up too

new uniform

manning has been wearing this police hat he made at school for the past two days. could this be his new uniform? love.

simplifying the look

he has switched to only a headband. sometimes i worry that the positive reactions from strangers are that they think he is a sick little girl. love.

manning's new uniform

so today manning woke up and got dressed in what is becoming his uniform - blue "elsa dress," yellow wings with hearts, yellow superhero mask and his olaf sweatshirt and hat. i told him that he couldn't wear dress-up clothes in the classroom because it would be distracting for the other kids. his teachers cracked up when we got there and he walked right in, removed all of his costume pieces and stuck them in his cubbie. his teachers commented about how confident he is. yes, he is. love.

what have we started?

manning woke up and put on his "elsa dress" and yellow wings this morning. he is loving the dress-up clothes! love.

costumed and ready to twirl

these two. what else can i say? the kids don't play downstairs very much, but on sundays we skype with both sets of grandparents and the kids rediscover all of their toys they ignore all week (and feel the need to throw them everywhere!). but these two were feeling the twirl today. love.

our future chemist

the student council put together themes for friday spirit days at madelyn's school. today's theme was "dress for success." the idea was that students could dress like their future career. madelyn knew right away that she would dress as a chemist (this is her newest science-based career choice). the problem was pulling back her creativity and reminding her that she was still going to school. she had a clipboard, goggles, plastic test tubes, a pen, a magnifying glass, a plastic beaker and she wanted a pencil behind her ear but i told her that she would have to choose goggles or pencil - her ear could only hold so much! love her.

dress like your favorite character day

today's spirit day was "dress as your favorite character" for school. madelyn used it as an excuse to give her halloween costume a trial run - she dressed as "joy" from the movie inside out. love.

winged, pirate fairy twirler

shortly after these pictures, he added heels. love.

boys dress-up