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Our girls have become enraptured with The Incredibles ; they pretend daily to be Violet and Jack-Jack. Daddy helped by printing out an image of Mr. Incredible, cutting out the mask, and taping the mask to their faces.
The girls loved the masks, but the paper/tape combo was uncomfortable, and the mask was a little too big for Amelia. So I used my superpowers. I purchased some black felt at the fabric store (*sparkly* black felt), performed a little photocopier/reducing magic, and created felt masks w/elastic headbands for both girls.
Both girls are delighted, Emma, in particular; she will wear her mask for hours. Here she is decked out for Easter. The lighting isn't the greatest, but note the fancy hat, the white gloves . . . and the superhero mask.
Emma and Amelia finally have haircuts--hooray! They were looking pretty shaggy (along with their mom--I can never manage to get my hair cut more than once every few months). The pics aren't the greatest, but you can see their faces.
Here's Emma looking at the easter basket the bunny brought mommy and daddy. (The bunny had to do something with the rest of the candy, purchased at a nearby warehouse store.) She got her haircut at Great Clips along with her mom--the first trip to a grownup hair salon.
Here's Amelia looking gorgeous, as ever. I cut Amelia's hair, and while it's shorter than I wanted, I love the fact that we can now see her beautiful neck.
And this reminds me of an amusing conversation I had with Emma last night.
"What does cute mean?" she asked.
"It means 'enjoyable to look at,'" I told her.
"Oh, so it sort of means 'pretty', I guess . . . wait, what does pretty mean?" she asked.
"It also means nice to look at, but 'cute' is more for little kids and 'pretty' could be any age," I explained.
"Oh," she said thoughtfully, "So what about 'pretty cute'?"
I saw this weather beacon in an inflight magazine and tried to convince my husband that he wanted one for his birthday. He saw $179 pricetag and said no thanks--but I still think it's nifty. Perhaps a good gizmo for the perfect office? Though it would be more handy in a home office (so you could use the information when dressing for the day).
As we enter birthday season*, I asked Emma what she wanted for a birthday present.
"I don't know," she responded. "I just know I want A LOT OF presents!"
Ah, childhood.
This year, figuring out what gifts to suggest for our girls has been a significant challenge. They truly do not need much of anything. But here are some ideas:
plastic easel that we can keep on the patio (like this one from Little Tykes)If you're local, please consider sharing an experience with the girls instead of giving a gift. Each girl would enjoy a special time with you. You don't even have to take them anywhere--they both would enjoy spending time in your yard (playing in sprinkler if it's warm enough, or planting something, or watering plants, or painting something really big like an old sheet or a piece of plywood) or in your house (baking, making a craft). I'm sure they will treasure the time together even more than they would a gift, and you could probably figure out something to wrap that relates to the experience (a baking ingredient, a paintbrush, seeds).
Even if you're not local, an "experience" gift would be very much appreciated--movie tickets, a gift certificate to the bookstore or the local mall, tickets to the children's theater or puppet theater or science center.
* Not surprisingly, children of academics tend to be born in April or May, which makes the usual end-of-semester rush just that much more hectic for parents.
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