Playing Dress-up

This month has been full of the kids using "costumes" in their imaginative play and I find it adorable when they "dress-up" so we snapped a few photos to document the cuteness!

Isabel playing chef.  This outfit was actually given to Lukas by his Yiayia a couple years ago, and he wore it a few times. Isa gets a lot of use out of it now.  She is quite the cook and often plays with the kids' kitchen chopping wooden food, making coffee and baking cookies. She never fails to warn us that the oven is "wary hot" (very hot).

With a big brother in the house, a little girl cannot resist mimicking him and dressing up like a "worker". 

This photo makes me smile for so many reasons!  They each created their own outfits and were happily playing together when Olli snapped this photo one morning. I love that Isa has the "European shoe-sizer" on her left foot and arms crossed while Lukas has his hood up and is wearing his home-made tool-belt along with his construction vest.  By the way, the Boch jackhammer he is holding was something he purchased with $2 of his allowance money at the Salvation Army store a few months ago.

This is how they chose to dress in order to walk to the library last week.  Lukas made sure to have his "cell phone" and blue "note-taker" with him.  Isa carried her purse (stuffed full of fake money and her sunglasses) the entire way there and back.

Isa in one of the dress-up outfits I got her for her birthday (both dresses are courtesy of the Salvation Army store and the accessories are from Toys R Us)

Just in case you care to know, the yellow ring on her right hand is from the dentist. She had her first appointment last week and is quite proud of her special prize and delights in putting on "my wewoh wing!" (my yellow ring) as she calls it.  We were told by the dentist that she has a cross-bite and an overbite (like I did as a kid--ugh!).  She successfully gave up her pacifier for good (it had been relegated to her bed for several months already) a few days before the appointment so hopefully at least her overbite will disappear when her permanent teeth come in!

Apparently, from Isa's point of view, the advantage of a having an overbite is that it's easier to stick your tongue between your two front teeth when you smile! :-)