Book Character Day at School

Today was "Dress like your favorite book character" day at school. And no doubt, it wasn't as easy as I had hoped it would be. First of all, I couldn't come up with costume ideas for any book characters from Emery's actual favorite books. So I went through each of her existing costumes until I could think of something (or google something) that I thought would work and we landed on Strawberry Shortcake (although we don't own and have never read an actual book about Strawberry Shortcake)! And although that costume is size 12 months, we made it work and Emery was happy happy!

I instantly thought of Max from "Where the Wild Things Are" for Case because that really IS one of his favorite books. So last week I ordered a cute Max costume that I found on sale and paid extra for expedited shipping and a guarantee for it to be here on time. But alas....the snow storm up north delayed FedEx and it did not arrive on time. Thanks to Facebook, a friend of mine came to the rescue with an extra awesome (and homemade) Wild Things costume! It was so cute and we even had the perfect shirt to finish it off. It was like it was meant to be! Case was happy, so Momma was happy too! Whew!!! What a relief! Amy Turman, I owe you one...or two! 

This pic of Case's class cracks me up! Love that his teacher sent it to us!

And thankful that Emery's teacher got this cute shot of her since I failed in my 25+ attempts of taking her pic this am before school!