Yay Mona!

For Red Nose Day the kids had to go to school with their hair in the style of their favourite character. I was so busy spending the whole week thinking about how I was going to get Littleone’s short bob into the style of Mona the Vampire that I totally forgot until 9pm last night that we were also supposed to make a red nose too. After raiding the craft cupboard for inspiration I finally came up with the idea of making a red pom-pom. So there I was late last night watching Question Time and winding the wool round and round and round and round the donut shaped cardboard.
As luck would have it I actually managed to keep her sitting still long enough to do her hair this morning and as uniform is not compulsory in the nursery, she headed off in her red jumper and little skirt. Here is the photographic evidence, spot the difference if you dare.


Anyway when we got there it turned out that only about five kids out of two full classes had made the effort and I wasn’t sure if in her eyes this earned us cool brownie or total embarrassment points.
So when I went to pick her up I discovered that she had won a prize for her hair. Shall I repeat that? SHE WON A PRIZE! Her first ever prize!* Not the Nobel Peace or the Orange or Child Prodigy of the Year but a prize for wearing her hair in a few plaits! Not a bad start I have to say. (but had I known there was a book up for grabs, I might have made a purple cloak out of that old sheet upstairs. *Tut*)
Even so on the way home she told me that one of her friends who has red hair and looked like he does every day, claimed he had come as Ron Weasley. So she walked through the front door, prize in her hand exclaiming ‘Why couldn’t I have gone as Ron Weasley?’
No pleasing some people.

*This reminds me of a weird dream I had last night I will share it with you later.