My kids love to play dress up. Until recently, our dress up bin consisted of several princess dresses, sparkly shoes (some with heels), lots of play jewelry, and a couple hats (some animal left over from their birthday party, and some purchased from goodwill...most girly). Ry-guy never minded dressing up in the princess dresses & shoes, but I felt badly. We needed variety! We have to be able to pretend we are something other than a princess!
Then I stumbled upon a jackpot of costumes (Halloween costumes. Only worn once. Some never worn) on craigslist!! Fire fighter, pirate, frontier, dragon, construction hat & lion mask! Yay! I couldn't even save them until Christmas because I knew they would love them so much! And they did!
My little firefighters
(firetrucks & ambulances are big in our house so I knew this would be the favorite!)
I had to move both of our full length mirrors so they could each look at themselves in their new costumes without fighting over a mirror. Ryan couldn't stop looking at himself. I asked him if he liked how he looked as a firefighter. Without turning away from the mirror he said a confident (full-of-awe sounding), "Yes." So much more creative play happening in our house! But I can't go into anymore detail because I have to go and mediate a fight over pink princess heels...
4 comments:
firefighters can't work in heels tho. they look great. gigi
Please let Allie have the heels. hee hee, they look so cute. They have so much fun. You are a great mommy Kim :) Hugs from Nana
As I've said dozens and dozens of times---you are one sweet mama, Kim!! Your kids are so blessed and so are you to be able to be a kid with them!! Your Dad opened the Husker video at work for me as we can't open it on this old computer. That was so great and fun. Way to go Husker Mom!!! There's nothing like the power of a mother! Blessings, Grandma
That is awesome! Great idea to keep an eye out on craigslist! I'm stealing that idea now ...
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