Costumes, settled

Remember back when I was debating whether to buy Ella and Dash the expensive Halloween costumes they wanted from Pottery Barn Kids?  I gave myself a lot of time to work on coming up with other options but as I should have known, I didn't exactly find a lot of time to execute any creative alternatives.  I didn't want to pay expensive shipping charges on top of the already ridiculously-priced costumes but I was so worried that Dash's beloved Max costume would sell out that last week I finally sat down to order the darn costumes.  No problems with Max, but the Butterfly Fairy costume Ella had her heart set on?  Completely sold out online.  Fortunately a few days later I remembered something called "brick and mortar stores" and made a lunchtime run to my local PBK store where, lo and behold, they had a Butterfly Fairy in Ella's size.  Whew.  So both costumes in hand, I gave them to the kids last night.  Their excitement level was off the charts.  I still don't feel great about spending so much on costumes, but the hour they ran around the house in them last night gleefully pretending to turn the house into a 'kin-dom' (Wild Thing Kingdom) and a fairyland was pretty darn fun to watch.

Dressing themselves

Just to be clear, they pick out their own clothes these days.

Book request

I came home from a preschool board meeting about 9:00 tonight and Ella ran downstairs to give me a note.  It had the name of a book on it that she said she "really really wanted to read."   I immediately bought it on Amazon (and the next one in the series after that, for good measure).  I asked Josh later if he thought I was being too indulgent by buying her a book just because she asked.   His response of "well, couldn't we just get it at the library?" told me what he thought.  But I'm sticking to my book buying ways.  If that's the way I spoil her, well, I'm OK with that.

Her request:  Ivy and Bean and the Ghost that had to go