The most wonderful day of the year....

It was Maddy's favorite day of the whole school year, yesterday.

CRAZY HAT DAY 2009

She wore a hat that Meghan brought back for her from some crazy place she went to over the summer. Kirghistan, I think (At least that is what my spell check thinks).

This super cool hat was a big hit with all the rest of her class. Maddy said someone commented on a boy's hat in her class, he just said to them: "Maddy's is the coolest"

Plus, also, she can wear fish hook earrings now and is overjoyed right to death. She is such a good minder, the lady at the piercing place told us to wait six months to wear fish hooks, and so she waited until exactly October the 16th to wear them.

Here is Ruby the morning of Crazy Hat Day.

She is not so crazy.

A little chat with Santa...And hats off to Elasta Girl

The Aunt Wendy sometimes likes to give large presents to the Grandma Smith for Christmas. This last year she gave her a beautiful Santa elf which was delivered while we were visiting one day.

Grandma Smith unwrapped it and set it on the dining room chair for display. Well, as you can imagine little Ru was mesmerized with the thing the whole darn night. The Grandma peeked in the dining room once and this is what she saw:

Yup. Little Ru had pulled a chair up to "Santa" and was telling him all sorts of things. (really) Mostly about what she wanted him to bring her for Christmas and somethings about how good she had been all year.

I grabbed my camera as quite as could be and snapped a few pictures.

HATS OFF TO ELASTA GIRL...

Elasta Girl loves straight hair. Her hair is the opposite of straight.

So some days I am a very nice Mom and straighten her hair before school. It really doesn't take that long, but morning are pretty hectic without the involvement of round brushes, hair dryers and flat irons. Not to mention all the lotions and potions I have to put in her thick beautiful curly hair to make it look lovely and manageably straight.

Besides how much she loves her hair to be straight, when I do straighten it Elasta Girl is giddy with joy because she gets to wear a hat. She LOVES hats. (Probably because they are an accessory and she is such a fashion diva) She can't wear them when her hair is curly because she gets the ultimate of hat heads, and we all know, hat head is not pretty.

On this particular day she chose the hat her aunt Renee made for her during last year's Christmas visit. It's her favorite one, and you can't see but it also has a cute tassel on the top.

This is Renee. She is the cutest girl around and pretty nice too.

Not that it matters much, but I'm pretty sure her hair is blond now.

We get to see her and the rest of the "live far away" family this Christmas. Only 11 more months to go. Whu hoo. We can't wait.