Elizabeth the Flower Princess
Molly the Pirate Princess
Julia decided to dress up in one of her everyday princess dress-up costumes instead of wearing her new Sleeping Beauty costume. Elizabeth was pretty upset about that because, as she said to Julia in a disappointed tone, "JULIA, you can't wear that dress, Mom paid money to buy you a costume and you're not even wearing it!" I pick my battles :-)
Our cute little bee who went around stinging everybody. She's a character!
We usually have the girls trade their candy for a toy. For the older girls this is customary and they really look forward to it. Fast forward this year to two curious little girls and we gave them the chance to have one piece of candy and then turn in their candy for a toy. They all promptly did that. And Dad put the candy stash up high somewhere. The next morning we found Julia and Anna behind a chair in the living room starting to chomp on a couple of pieces of candy. They had done some good scaling. We told them that they could have the candy or a toy - they'd have to choose. Elizabeth and Molly were encouraging them to pick the toy. They quickly chose the candy. Molly said to me, surprised at their choice, "I'd MUCH rather have a toy than candy." We went to Five Below the next day to pick out a toy for Elizabeth and Molly and fully expected the little girls to complain because they weren't getting a toy, or at least beg for one. Not at all. They realized the choice they had made and were happy with their candy.
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