PJ day to cat day

Eddie's preschool class recently had pajama day as the last day of show and tell.  Each kid was to bring in waht they slept with or had in their bed, so Eddie brought in a blanket grandma Wisc. had made.  He so enjoyed the day that he did not want to change out of his pjs as we headed to a local attaction.  He proceeded to parade around said attraction, loving every minute of his PJs.  I suppose if you are going to do something like this, you should go all out.



Josie decided it should be princess and hello kittyrain boots day.  She mercifully changed into something more suited to the weather before we went downtown.  But she did go grocery shopping in this attire.  Got a couple smiling glances.  She is not normally one to go around dressed like this, so I just went with the flow.  The boots started to drive her crazy, so that was an easy switch.  And she was so worried about keeping her dress clean that she asked to change out of that too.















Fast forward a bit to Saturday night.  We were babysitting the kids of some friends of ours whom both our kids adore.  Josie wanted to show off her collection of barettes and bows and as she and Eddie love to play with them, they entire right side of her head looks like she might as well have curlers in.  Here they are having lunch/tea with their zsu zsu pets. 




Then we have today.  They play a game of 'cat' pretty regularly.  Eddie is the owner and Josie is the cat.  Near as I can tell on the handful of times I've been drafted to play, it involves Josie crawling on her cat legs and meowing and Eddie asking her, as the cat, what she wants to do.  You can't see it in this picture, but she has a cardboard tail that Eddie taped to her backside and then (entirely his idea), we taped cat ears to her headband.

Eddie has changed so much since the beginning of the school year, he is scaresly the same child.  He can both buckle himself in and unbuckle himself from his carseat.  I removed the child lock on his door so that he can now open the door and get himself out.  He likes helping Josie get out of her carseat too. 

He can definitely read some (can absolutely sound out words, thanks to the TV show Word World) and can spell, so spelling things out around him is becoming more difficult.  He has been really into building and constructing things...from his train tracks (probably his all time favorite toy) to integrating other toys into his track designs.  Josie LOVES art.  It is the first thing she asks to do almost every day.  Eddie has lately been claiming that Josie knows everything.  "Ask her anything," he implores.  She then gives her best educated guesstimate answer.  She is a classic 3 year old.  Striking out on her own and insisting on things 'her' way.

We somehow let the day get away without making any preparations for dinner and I'm proud to say that Eddie ate his weight in cantalope, which Josie refuses.  They both enjoyed the recently picked strawberries, Josie decided she does indeed like edamame and ate her weight in those.  After inhaling beets 2 nights ago, tonight she decided she didn't care about seeing if she peed pink and refused them.  We made Eddie try beets again and for added effect, he shuddered as he swallowed.  Not to be too healthy, we rounded out the meal with tator tots and sweet potato fries.  Josie walks into the kitchen while it is all being heated up and announces, "it smells like tator tots."  maybe we need to try some other potatos.