Ladybug Day

To start off, I begin with a small list of explanations.

Greta has loved bug collecting this summer.  She has loved Roly Polies, beetles, ladybugs, gnats. . .whatever she could find.

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When we were shopping for school clothes Greta found a ladybug top on clearance at Gymboree that she HAD to have.  Coincidentally, in another store, Tessa bought a red and white polk-a-dot shirt (also on clearance).

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The girls have been looking at scrapbooks while we do their hair and seeing layouts about Frog Day, Easter Projects, Muddy Play days (etc.) in their big brothers' past have left them feeling pretty gypped--first by the fact that they don't have any scrapbook pages about themselves, but even more so that 'we just don't do anything fun like you did with the boys'.

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Summer has seemed to slip right by without much of 'that' kind of fun, so I decided to surprise the girls with Ladybug Day. Then, by great chance, on the day I had that scheduled Ladybug Day, a friend needed a place to be while her mom and sister went missionary shopping. What could be more fun? And without prompting, she wore a dress with ladybugs on it; so cute!

Ladybug attire!

  Here is what we did:

Dipped Oreos in red candy melt and added spots and eyes.

Painted ladybugs on toes and fingers.

Made water bottle labels and ladybug snacks (Babybel cheese with olives and crackers with halved cherry tomatoes and olive heads).

Made ladybug love notes.

Painting rocks into ladybugs was also on our agenda, but they decided they'd rather play than do another craft. . . 

The fun part for me was these little girls' delight in it all.  Greta kept saying, "Ellie, don't you love this?"  Ellie kept saying, "I'm just so thankful I could come!"  And Tessa was just delighted to have a friend to share the fun with.  Maybe one of these days we'll get downstairs and the girls can make their own scrapbook pages of Ladybug Day, then perhaps I can be redeemed just a bit!  Until then, at least there is a blog post.