Naomi wanted to do a Back-to-School Fashion Show to show off her school outfits for Daddy. I figured we'd just do a simple thing--dress her up in a few outfits and then show them off in the living room or something. But as soon as I said the words "fashion show" Naomi had a vision in her head of music and stepping out from behind curtains... she must have recently watched something on TV that had a fashion show! So I rigged something up with some yarn, our old living room curtains, and the command hooks that are on our living room walls (to help us make sheet forts... we go ALL OUT for sheet forts in our house! Our sheet forts encompass our entire living room, including the television, and we usually blow up our queen air mattress to put inside so we can be comfy. But our sheet forts really deserve their own post, so we'll talk about those another time!)
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| Here is Naomi playing with the curtains--she was pretty excited. |
Anyway, after I spent like 2 hours cleaning the kitchen and living room and rigging up the fashion show curtains, Naomi helped me pick out her favorite outfits from her clothes. We really didn't do any school clothes shopping for her--I let her pick out one new outfit for the first day of school, and she picked out one new shirt, but that was it! Thanks to my mom, however, Naomi is pretty much set for school clothes! My mom is always shopping yard sales and consignment shops for clothes for the girls and sending us big boxes in the mail. It's always exciting when we get a package from Grandma!
Naomi even wanted to accessorize with hair bows and hats, so I got out what we call our "hair bow hanger", and she chose headbands and bows for her outfits. We used to not have any cute hair things, but somehow we now have a ton. I didn't realize how many we had, and I bought a couple packages of bows last week for Naomi to wear for school. Then I made our hair bow hanger and organized the bows on ribbons hanging from a hanger, and I realized how many hair accessories we really have!
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| Our hair bow hanger |
In our "backstage" area, I used our drying rack to help us hang/organize her outfits.
I guess having just our family as guests wasn't enough for Naomi, because she covered the couch with her stuffed animals who she said wanted to watch. I tried to move a couple so I could sit down, and she got so upset because I put 2 of her animals in front of the others and they were blocking their view. She is so funny. Jacob saved the day by moving 2 of them to the "special seats" (on top of the couch).
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| Our audience! |
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| Pinkie Pie and Pig got the special seats! |
Here's a video of the beginning of the Fashion Show. Naomi came up with her little intro 100% on her own! (Please ignore the fact that I sound like an idiot in this video! Just watch the girls because they're adorable!)
Here are some videos and pictures of the girls' outfits:
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| This is the outfit Naomi picked for her first day of school. Aleta wanted to be in the fashion show, too, so she decided to show off her new coat. (I got it for 5 bucks at a consignment shop! I love it, it's so cute.) |
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| Her first-day-of-school outfit without her backpack on. I might try to convince her to pick a different headband for school, but she insisted on wearing that one for the fashion show. |
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| She wanted to show off her pencil case with her outfit. She LOVES her pencil case... probably more than anything else we got her for school. |
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| One of her new hair clips. |
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| She was wearing a cute white cardigan with this outfit, but she took it off before the picture. |
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| I told them to pose... I guess that was Aleta's "model face" or something? Funny girls. |
I guess Jacob got bored during the outfit changes, because I found a ton of pictures like this on my camera:
This is what our backstage area looked like at the end of the show... it took us a while to get everything cleaned up!
We're going to have to make this an annual thing... the girls had so much fun!
