Dressing up

After watching "The Worst Witch" for days on end and rekindling her obsession, Julia decided she wanted to dress up like the witches in their school uniforms. She put together her own Worst Witch attire last night, and then assigned roles to the rest of us in the house so that we could ALL reenact the show together. What do you think? Does she look like the spitting image of Mildred Hubble or what?:




Which one is the real Worst Witch? Can you tell?

And, of course, wherever Julia goes, so goes Madeleine:



The girls were equally excited to get into their church dresses this morning, eager to head out to Sunday school and choir. As Madeleine put it, "Yeah, we can go up to the QUIET!" Ironically, she was the absolute opposite of quiet while I was up singing with the other "quiet" members. As much as Madeleine loves coming up to the choir with me, she is becoming rambunctious enough that I think it's time to hand her over to the Sunday school teachers. (In fact, during the past two services, I did send her down to the Sunday school classroom so she could play with the other kids.) Today was possibly the loudest and most disruptive she has been, although the rest of the choir seemed to find amusement in her shenanigans. Unfortunately, all the toys I so carefully selected and packed along to keep her busy only served as fodder for her exclamations. Prancing her two Polly Pockets around on the heater while the choir sang, Madeleine was happily entrenched in her own fantasy world, and suddenly, we choir members were sucked into her world as well, as the singing came to a pause just as Madelene's Cinderella Polly Pocket shrieked, "I should get more BANANAS!"

Oh, yeah. Hi everybody. Hi congregation. Hi, brand new Priest. We're not being distracting at ALL...

Once down in the Sunday school classroom, however, she was so interested in the snack, project, and Valentine's gift the class received that she was apparently on wonderful behavior. So I think from now on, I'll just send her on down there rather than taking her up to the quiet with me.