Costumery

Wearing a dog mask around the house: not particularly unusual...

Wearing a dog mask while walking around Rosemary Pool complex: significantly more unusual.  Especially when wearing it wrong-side-out...

Madeleine was, in fact, so in-character as she paraded her mask around the pool site that she felt the need to continuously chant: "Arf.  Arf.  Arf and arf.  Arf and arf and arf and arf," in rhythm to her footsteps. 

Julia, too, is totally in character today, though she is no longer embodying the persona of a dog.  In preparation for this afternoon's American Girl workshop, for which I signed her up, she carefully picked out her own outfit that mimics that of one of the dolls in her catalog.  Here she goes, off to the workshop in rain boots, despite the fact that it is currently 80 degrees out with not a cloud in sight.  If the teacher of this workshop wonders why Julia is showing up in galoshes without any hint of impending rain, I'll just have to fill her in: fashion trumps weather-appropriate choices any day, of course.