b) stay up until midnight doing laundry
c) stay up until midnight making my kids Dr. Suess outfits
d) stay up until midnight writing a dissertation on the finer points of plastic dolls
If you guessed C, you'd be correct!
It went something like this:
Emma: Momma.
Me: Yes, child.
Emma: We need to dress up as a Dr. Suess character for school tomorrow.
Me: ...ok.
End scene.
I know, that whole conversation was fraught with meaning. So we thumbed through all the Dr. Suessy books we have at home and settled on this geniusy idea:
Thing One and Thing Two. I told you, geniusy.So I ran down the the Walmarts and combed the aisles for suitable materials. Here's what I found:
Two long sleeved red shirts, a bottle of black fabric pain, some fabric tape and one of Lance's undershirts.
I traced an oval on the white shirt, cut it out and placed it on some waxed paper. Then I penciled in THING 1 and traced over it with the black fabric paint.
You know, like this.
Then I did the other one. They took eons to dry. Hence the up-until-midnight thing.
After it dried, I attached fabric tape to the back of the oval pieces and affixed them to the red shirt. I chose to do it this way so I could reuse the red shirts and just peel the ovals off when I wash them. If I was super industrious I would've just sewn them on or maybe gone whole hog and embroidered but GUESS WHAT? I DIDN'T WANT TO BECAUSE HELLO, IT WAS LIKE 10:00 P.M. AT THIS POINT.
So.
They turned out like this:
Decent.
Then I had to tackle the whole blue hair thing.
I found some black headbands, blue yarn and blue wrapping ribbon. I cut lengths of both the yarn and the wrapping ribbon and just tied them around the headband.
Yeah. Not perfect, but passable because HELLO, IT WAS LIKE 11:00 P.M. AT THIS POINT AND I WAS JUST READY TO BE IN THE BED.
So this morning, the girls woke up and got dressed in their new Suessified clothes.
