Simply Redheads: Book Day

The kids had book day at school yesterday, and had so much fun. It was funny to see all the kids and teachers dressed up. I wish I had gotten a picture of some of the teachers, they were all dressed up as where's waldo(forgive me, it's wally here :). Midgets new love is Pippi Longstocking, we've been reading them for a while at bedtime. So, when she heard of book day she squealed, "I can be Pippi, she's a hero!" That was easy enough, we bent a hanger, painted it, and she had all the clothes already. It suited her to a T. And once she put the costume on, she even acts like her :)
Monkey likes the green hornet. So I found him the hat, which he now loves to where, which is very cute :) I lucked into the suit at a store called Lulu's. 82 dirhams, which is around 20 dollars! A 3 piece suit. he absolutely loves it. Which is somewhat funny, as he has always loved dressing up. When he was 3, he had a christmas outfit, it came with a blue velvet vest. He wore that vest everywhere we went, shorts, didn't matter, the vest was there. Last year it was a corduroy blazer, so this is perfect. He even hung it up carefully next to his dads suits. So adorable! Now the only mask i could find was a green glittery one, which didn't thrill him. Of course as it got warmer during the day, the Green Hornet lost his jacket and mask, and monkey said he became Al Capone, how clever is that!
He also had his play shown on the big screen at assembly. It was a bit long for that and the kids were antsy, so we couldn't hear it well though. But still, that was exciting. And to top it all off, Midget won an award for her costume in her class, and an award for Best Book Cover design for all of year 3! She got a dictionary, and her cover is going to be displayed at the school. I didn't know anything about it, so I am dying to see. So it was a great day for our kids, we couldn't be prouder! Luckily dad was there to see it all, and he was so happy he couldn't quit beaming <3 Here's Pippi Longstocking!