$6.50...well spent!

the proof is in the pictures. we picked up a whole box full of princess-ish dress-up clothes, a castle, and a wooden rocking horse for just $6.50 at a garage sale this morning. look at all the fun elizabeth had...and mommy too! this was elizabeth first real exposure to "dress-up" (aside from trying on daddy's shirts while folding laundry...and wearing around our shoes...), and i was amazed how innate the "girly", "princess" mentality is...seriously, she was enthralled with the idea of the castle and wearing her princess outfits. so cute!

"princess libs" (with the castle in the background...so funny that at nap-time she insisted on reading "go dog go" (and i was amazed by how many words and sentences she could "read" from memory even though we haven't picked that one up in awhile...kids are such sponges) to the monkey figurine that came with the castle and tucking him into bed (its a dora castle, and while dora was missing, boots the monkey was included...it also cracks me up that she is in LOVE with the fact that it is dora's castle, though she has only seen the show like three times--then again, she does eat the yoplait kids dora yogurt ALL the time, so perhaps that is where it comes from).

the six sizes too big princess shoes she wanted to wear ALL day...there were actually 4 different pairs in the box, so she rotated throughout the day

riding on the wooden rocking horse we scored for a mere fifty cents...notice that she is trying to put the princess tiara on the rocking horse. kate even took a spin on the horse...i didn't get pictures since i was too busy holding her on!

i just love this smilin' face!

elizabeth SO wanted mommy to dress up in princess clothes too...so i put on the one thing that would fit...a hat!

in other "elizabeth news", we've been doing lots of "B" crafts...a bumblebee, a blue bird, a butterfly, bodies (i used sidewalk chalk to trace miranda and then elizabeth laying on the driveway...then we used the chalk to color clothes onto them). for some odd reason elizabeth calls sidewalk chalk "hot sauce"....she was riding her tricycle around the cul-de-sac and saw the neighbor's driveway that was sidewalk chalked with words and pictures and exclaimed, "look mommy, they have hot sauce on their driveway!" i didn't connect that she meant sidewalk chalk until she pointed to our driveway and said, "i do hot sauce on our driveway!" i LOVE this stage...the whole pretend play. this evening she wanted me to put on my shoes so we could go shopping...a trip that involved going to the bathroom, climbing onto the stool and reaching into the sink to buy some grapes and bringing them back to her room. i love (well, sometimes) seeing her mimick the things she sees going on around her...carrying her purse like mommy, changing her animals diapers, and on and on....precious!