Guess Who?!?

Anyone who has school age children probably know that a certain beloved children's author celebrated his birthday this week. And the powers that be at my children's school thought it would be a good idea to have a dress up as a character from one of his books day at school. Of course you probably guessed that I'm referring to Dr. Suess and of course Katie Grace waited until bedtime the night before to remind me of this grand event. She said she wanted to dress up as the Grinch. I had to stifle the laugh. I'm thinking how on earth would we do that? Right, I'll just pull that Grinch costume right out of my magic Cat In the Hat hat! I told her I would see what I could do and she looked at me with tears pleading for me to come up with a costume because of course, she would be the ONLY one not dressed up if I didn't. So, equipped with the guilt and stress I am too familiar with being a mom I set off in search of a Dr. Seuss costume. I pulled a few Dr. Seuss books off of the shelves and began flipping through the pages. Now, I love me a good Dr. Seuss book but you've seen his characters, right? Not exactly throw together the night before kind of costumes as the creatures in his books are somewhat bizarre! I quickly abandoned the books and set off to search the internet for pictures of Cindy Lou Who knowing she would probably be the most feasible given the amount of time. It must be said that the Cindy Lou Who from the book looks nothing like the Cindy Lou Who from the movie, but I didn't have a nightgown that I could cinch under her feet. The next morning Pessimistic KG woke up and said, "I bet you didn't get a costume, huh." I was pleased to tell her that I did come up with something and she was so excited. At first she thought I had a Grinch costume but she was more than OK with Cindy Lou Who, I'm sure just because she was so surprised that I took the time to come up with something, anything. Anyway, we did the best we could with the hair given I only had about 15 minutes to get it done before the carpool arrived. Who knew that you could just put a cup on top of your head and wrap your hair around it to achieve that lifted hair effect? Well, apparently everyone else at school who dressed up as Cindy Lou Who did, but oh well. There's always next year. At least KG was happy, she was beaming, in fact. That's when I took this picture, right after school (it looked better before school but I didn't have time to get a picture before she left). She even wanted to leave it in while we went to Walmart. I had to swallow my pride a little and pray that nobody would notice her seriously funky do. Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!