Last week Emily, who is in kindergarten, ran off the school bus with an assignment that was requested to be completed at home. My heart sank. Don't be gettin' all over my case thinkin' I don't like to do things with my children ... because I do. Really. However, this particular assignment was to be done with Emily.
You know ... that child who was the third born in this family. The one with a mind of her own. The one who will always, without fail, want to do the complete opposite of whatever I suggest.
"Emily, would you like to stay up really really late tonight and watch whatever you want on TV?"
"No Mom, I think I'd better turn in early."
"Emily, how about this giant sized chocolate bar for dinner. YUMMY!"
"Ya know what Mom? I am more in the mood for green beans tonight!"
Get my point? Makes for some great blog posts, but costs a fortune in sanity medication. Just sayin'.
ANYWAY - about this project ... it was a turkey. A turkey drawn on a piece of paper. A turkey that MUST be cut out and disguised ... so that no one really knows it's a turkey ... and will look right past it when hunting down their Thanksgiving dinner.
That crafter in me took over and a million ideas started racing through my head. We can cover it up as a snowman. A reindeer. A present. An Easter Bunny. An M&M camouflaged as a Turkey so that it's not on the menu for the holidays (don't you love those M&M commercials?), a television set, a clock, Bugs Bunny ... oooohhhh ... we were gonna have SO MUCH STINKIN' FUN deciding what this Turkey will be disguised as.
And then Emily spoke. "I've already decided what to do ... it's going to be a cheerleader. A Prairie Cheerleader. With an orange shirt. Let's get started."
Alrighty then.
So, last Friday night we made a date. Her and I would disappear into the craft room and would not show our faces until we had one heck of a costume for her Turkey.
I made several suggestions ... to which it was no surprise were all shot down by the boss. All except for adding the cute little hair clip in her hair and Q-Tips instead of toothpicks for the pom pom handles. Imagine how great that made me feel. I was such a valuable participant in this process. Sigh. But I'm can't forget to mention ... Emily also allowed me to tie the shoelaces and cut out the shirt. Oh yeah ... and unclog the glue that one time.
So now ... without further ado ... I present you with ... Emily's "Cheerky" ...
Pretty darned cute if I say so myself. I think she did a great job.
Now I better go clean up the craft room that we pretty much destroyed so she could see every single resource that I had for her to use. Wouldn't want to miss anything.
But, before I go ... I want to say, "WAY TO GO Emily!!! You are becoming quite the little artist. But just one thing ... can you just PRETEND that you need me sometimes? For my sake."
