I'm so excited this time of year when it comes to dressing my girls in their holiday dresses. Luckily they all still love being dressed up and wearing pretty dresses. I usually don't buy clothes for my 7 year old without her with me since she has started developing her own tastes in clothes and I don't always get them right. But when I was out shopping the other day with my other two girls, while she was still in school, I saw this dress on display and it just sang out to me 'you daughter will love me'. I decided to try and find the other two girls dresses at the same time in hopes of coordinating. My 3 year old found a dress she liked and it looked good with the one I already had. Good thing too, because it wouldn't have been easy to change her mind, it was purple. Over to the baby section and got my 10 month old a dress as well. One thing about shopping for them this early is that there are lots to choose from, usually I'm scrambling at the last minute (along with everything in my life).
My 7 year old gets home from school,
"Come see what I bought for you today" I say to her as I head down to the bedroom.
I hold up the dress for her to see, her eyes bulge out of her head in delight and a smile slowly spreads across her face,
"for my party!" she squeals with excitement, grinning from ear to ear.
(uh-oh) She is, of course, referring to her birthday party which we have been planning for and is fast approaching in a couple of weeks.
"um, no" I respond, as I watch her smile slowly fade. "It's for Christmas time."
After thinking about it for a bit (I do have their photography session booked for before her party).
"I say, if you promise to be very, very careful and not get anything on the dress you can wear it for your party." I say to her.
"oh thank you mommy," she hugs me and skips out of the room.
Cross my fingers that her sister doesn't decide she wants to wear hers as well.
Do you think the shower curtain I wrap around her when she is eating her chocolate cake will affect the pictures? ;)
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