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Halloween 2006

Here's Mara with Emma, dressed as Little Mermaid.


Here are Mara's godsiblings, Mikey and Kassiani, Mara, and Emma at our church's costume party. Mara and Emma had fun, but they hardly played any of the games at all. We told them they had to play the games in order to get candy, but they just wanted to chase each other around, instead.

I'm not complaining. It's good for Mara to run out some of her energy rather than just eat more candy!

 

Halloween 2006

Mara dressed as a Pretty Kitty, and she was cuter than I could have imagined. Our original plan was for Cade and me to go as pirates, with Mara as the parrot, but it never came together. We bought this costume the day before the church's costume party.




Mara and Julie on our stoop, beside the pumpkins they carved and decorated together. Julies a better substitute mom than I am a real one, I think!

Update to Mara's big girl room

I couldn't find any fairy bedding I really liked, so this is what we did instead. I found these fairy ornaments at Pier 1 Kids and suspended them by the same ribbon I used on the butterflies across the room (see post below). Behind them are two sheer pannels, the cheapest I could find, hung from a tension rod. Before now, the only privacy Mara has had was from the canopy over the bed and because she's shorter than the bed.


This is the new window with the canopy. After researching on the internet, trying three different bedding solutions, and taking pictures of several other options, this is what we came up with. This bed-in-a-bag, called Chloe Plaid, was on sale for $40 at Linens 'nThings. (Haha! Isn't that the way of things? It's cheaper online!) It's not a fairy theme, but neither does it clash with the stripes on the wall. With the fairies in the background, I feel okay about it. As it turns out, Cade and Mara don't necessarily prefer fairies to butterflies/dragonflies, anyway. I'm just glad we found something that wasn't solely butterflies.


Here's Mara showing off her new room. She's really taken to posing for pictures lately.


So, compare this with below and tell me what you think. Did we improve?