Dr. Seuss Days

I'm pretty sure I have established the fact that I am not the type of mother who makes her job any harder than it has to be. I don't get overly involved in craft projects, I don't like going the extra mile on school projects, I don't sit up nights dreaming how to dress my kids for spirit week at school. That's not to say I don't support all that stuff--I just don't feel the need to do it myself. Luckily, I have some self-starters for children who, despite my lameness, still like to participate in all that craziness.

It's Dr. Seuss week. It started with wear green day -okay, not so bad. I can get on board with that one. Then came wear red and white day -again, totally do-able. Next was crazy sock and hat day(not the ideal day to also be picture day--but, whatever). Today was dress up like your favorite book character day. My kids interpret that into your favorite Dr. Seuss character.

Correct me if I'm wrong, that sounds like an awful lot of work for me. Most days I'm doing good to just get them all in clean school clothes, hair combed, teeth brushed and out the door with a smile on their face without some sort of major melt down occurring. Let's just toss in the fact that today is Thursday. Thursday is early morning choir. The girls leave just after 7:30.

Being the understated-involvement, yet supportive mom that I am, I did not draw any attention to the book character event. BUT, when Lucy came to me with this diagram last night for her hair in order to be Cindy Lou Who I jumped right on board. Really, no one around here can resist Lucy. She is just so darn lovable, FUN-ee, a little on the crazy side and the nicest girl around.
We used one cup instead of three. She decided Cindy Lou didn't have the same ear issues we were dealing with. We opted for the one cup on top and pig tails on the side route.


Here's the finished product. She was thrilled with it and we all got a good laugh. That was about as far as she got with her costume, though, so apparently she is a wee bit my daughter after all.

This is another picture she drew last night. The arrows say "Lucy" and the caption reads, "Say I am beautiful or Die. Say it NOW!!! I'm get'in mad!" Evidently our little Cindy Lou-Lucy has a few issues she is working on.
See?
Little bit crazy, right?
But, oh so funny to me. Very few people know how incredibly witty Goose is.

Tomorrow is pajama day. Gee, I can hardly wait. I suppose that does remove the *put children in clean school clothes* step of the morning routine, so that's a good thing. ~