Mikaela and I kicked off the New Year with the beginning of our new tradition - "Fancy Day."
For our first "fancy day", we went to lunch at the Old Spaghetti Factory and went to see Annie at the Fox Theatre - it doesn't get any fancier than that!
She spent all week agonizing over what to wear - nothing in her closet was fancy enough! We finally settled on a never worn before grey dress with velvet black bows - a velvet black headband - white tights and black dress shoes. She spent an hour packing her new Tinkerbell purse (which color coordinated of course) to take with us. One lipgloss (a fancy pink one), one hair brush, one mirror, and one hello kitty kleenex.
We woke Saturday morning, took girly bathes and got ready. I adorned my best jeans and a nice sweater. I was promptly informed that I was not fancy enough, and had to change into something more suitable!
Nana and Aunt Ashleigh picked us up - and we were off!
We had the pleasure of eating in the trolley at the Old Spaghetti Factory. Mikaela and Aunt Ashleigh played tic-tac-toe until our food came. She began with an appetizer of applesauce and warm bread (no butter) - lemonade to drink please. She ordered plain spaghetti - long noodles! For dessert, she chose vanilla ice cream. I won't bore you with all the calories that the rest of the table ate:).
We arrived at the Fox just in time to use the fancy bathrooms and freshen up. She immediately chose to sit in one of the vanities - and brushed her hair and applied fresh lip gloss!
She loved Annie! She smiled - giggled - and clapped in all the right places. She even sang along:).
At intermission we had popcorn, fruit snacks and an apple juice to munch on during the second half. She insisted that Aunt Ashleigh help herself to her kids' snack plate.
At the end, we bought a souvenir - a stuffed Fox to remind us of our venture. She named it "Olive" after Daddy Warbucks (Oliver).
And thus begins the tradition of fancy day!
