Miss Smith

Tonight at Awana, the Cubbies were supposed to dress up as their favorite profession. 

It's a little hard to pick a costume when Lily wants to be 

Princess of the dinosaurs at Berry Bity City when she's older, so we settled on dressing up as a teacher. (Hey, she's super smart and has natural leadership abilities...It seemed like an obvious choice!!)

Now, it's a little difficult to convey the teacher vibe when you're three years old so we played up the nerdiness of teachers circa 1990:

1.) Over-sized eye glasses (I popped the lenses out of her Strawberry Shortcake shades)

2.) Old lady jewelry (plastic pearls from the Target dollar section)

3.) Grandma hairstyle (she originally had an adorable little bun, but it was just a regular ponytail by the time we left the house because it was hurting her head)

4.) Conservative dress code (Yes, that is Bermuda Plaid she's wearing) 

5.) Coordinating cardigan (with embroidery and a flower attached)

6.) Accessories ("Miss Smith" name tag and educational books)

And after all our hard work bringing this costume together, can you guess what happened during drop off? She gave me back the books, name tag, and glasses...so she just looked like a prairie girl who's parents forgot it was dress up night!!  :)