Fun with hats

Rather than bore you with yet another episode of "Mortimer's Mom stresses out and loses her shit over bubble-floors and now, the language police" I will give you one of the canned posts I wrote before I left, in case I had nothing to write. I promise you, it's better that what I could produce today....

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Amy over at Grrltravels wrote a post a few weeks ago about playing restaurant with her kids. I too am of the "play while I sit and watch" school of parenting much of the time. Don't get me wrong, we play boardgames and I do tons of arts and crafts with them, but there are days when I seriously don't feel like it. So I sit on the couch and we have tea parties. The girls serve me like the Queen that I am! Because she is quite Disney-princess-yfied, Dumpling calls me "Your Majesty"....

An other game we love to play is dress-up. In her room, Dumpling has a giant drawer full of old clothes, along with a dozen princess dresses and a whole bunch of jewelry and shoes. This can provide hours of entertainment. The other day, we were in the basement and I seriously wanted to watch Oprah (with Seal and Heidi Klum, fyi). But they weren't feeling the tea party. So I grabbed the basket of winter hats and mits that I was getting ready to bring to the front hall, and hilarity ensued. take a look:

  So I would say, sitting back on the couch and watching them play can be a very good thing once in a while. Even if it does make me the Evil Queen, or Ursula the sea witch....

Comments

[Herb Urban]

Very cute pictures. Lil Urban likes to dress up in clothes three times too big for her. In other words, anything my mom recently bought her. btw, thanks for reminding me I forgot to TiVo that Oprah with Seal and Heidi Klum.

[Elise]

I remember those visits from the language police. I worked at a biotech in Laval (more than ten years ago) and we had to run the French versions of all the Microsoft programs. It was such a pain - they don't even use that software in France. We also had to take down all the English motivational signs on the wall because the text was too big. The signs were really cheesy, so we only wished they had made us take down the French versions too. Nobody in the US believes me when I tell them about it, though.

Love reading little snippets of life in Montreal and your awesome crafting. Do you have holiday craft plans that you can share?

[figlet]

Love the pictures of BB. She looks like she's the willing victim in these photos. Sorry about the floor AGAIN. And I can't wait to hear about the language police. What was the transgression?

[Natalie]

Taking notes here, taking notes... I'm still at the "having fun emptying the basket of baby socks" with Yummy (which she is doing right now...), but now, I have a plan! :o)

So sorry about the floors! S and I were talking about it: for what it's worth, I think we we actually said a few swear words on you behalf to the renovation spirits...