Dress Up & Dance

We've arrived at that point in the summer where it's been either mid-90s and/or thunderstorming every afternoon for approximately the last 900 days.  Sometimes it can be a challenge to keep everyone sane and happy in the infamous naptime-to-dinnertime stretch without being able to go outside.  We've already done a ton of super-fun Pinterest-projects (look for those in a future post), but I'm starting to run out of ideas.  The idea that made our afternoon one of the most fun of the summer actually came from Molly.  She started picking through the dress-up box, which got the ball rolling.  Then when she asked to turn the iPod on, it just completed the package and made today one for the record books.  Check out all the fun we had:

When Ian first saw the tutus flying out of the dress-up box, he gave them one look, climbed up into the chair, and grabbed a book to read.  I guess dress-up is not a man's game.

Molly started out as a "kitty fairy".

She was pretending to be Princess Presto from Super Why by using her scepter to make the letter A.  I love to watch her blossoming imagination.  She made all the other "A"s during our preschool time that we do each day.

"Ahoy, mateys!"  It's not a tutu, so I guess I won him over to our little game.

This scurvy scalawag made quick work of destroying poor Molly's letters :-(

Declaring mutiny against the hat.

Princess P snatched the abandoned hat up pretty quickly.

With a new set of butterfly wings and a mix of Frank Sinatra, Ace of Base, and Whitney Houston (thank you Shuffle), Molly was ready to rock and roll.  Captain Ian wasn't so keen on keeping his pirate get-up on, but he still had a good time dancing, as you can see in the videos.

So, next time you're feeling down, frustrated, fed-up, or blue, get dressed up, put your dancing shoes on, and blast the tunes.  You'll be glad you did.