Jenna
LOVES to dress up in costume. I had
thought for a while that she had always wished she had blond hair, but she
doesn't see it that way, though she did do chores in order to purchase a blonde
wig which may look real from a distance, but the fibers themselves are
polyester or some other form of plastic.
This is what she wanted to wear to school:
We had tried another bow - partly to
secure the wig, but also to keep the strands off her face. Long hair is just too bothersome right now,
which is why she's had such short hair for almost a year now. I tied a bow in scarf that Ooki had sent but
it definitely did not go with her personality, though it did seem to match her
shirt well
but she did end up wearing the
multi-pastel colored scarf rather than the bandana. She did keep the tutu on all day, but removed
the blond wig before school had even started as it felt too hot to continue
wearing.
She cannot wait for Halloween, which
is her favorite holiday, and she now has enough costumes to celebrate two weeks
of Halloween without wearing the same costume twice. Last night she dressed as a lady bug for a
dress-up barbeque that she had attended.
But I'm getting ahead of
myself. Just before she returned home
from school, a package had been left at our door. A package with her name on it. An unexpected package from her Uncle Paul who
has a talent for carving wood. He had
made several pencil boxes and had filled one and mailed it to her. It was the highlight of her day.
