Book Week

Well the Boys had their first book week last week - Who ever came up with the idea of getting Mums all stressed out just so their kids can wear costumes that they are not even sure that they want to wear!! *sigh*

The theme was "Fairy Tales and Folk Lore" for the parade this year. Another big *sigh* as they are not high on this list of things to read here (in fact if there isn't a picture of a dead animal on the cover aka Sporting Shooter, it is unlikely to be even looked at by my two *insert eyerolling smilie here *).

So I put my thinking cap on, got out the book of fairy tales and went through it with the terrors. Cameron pretty quickly set his mind to being "Puss in Boots" so he could wear his spiderman gumboots to school for the day. Suited me fine! All I had to do was buy a few feathers for his hat and he was done (good thinking points go to Jason for thinking to use the batman cape!). Add one of my belts, a plastic sword and a stocking stuffed with newspaper tail and we were in business!

Josh was tricker to help! He had his mind set on being a cowboy. Now I cannot think of a fairy tale with a cowboy in it!! In the end I convinced him to be Jack and the beanstalk (the bribe of a whole bag of jelly beans as his magic beans helped!). Mind you he tells me in the arvo that he hid the bag of beans in his bag (after I had stayed up late to sew on out of an old pillowcase mind you!) and told everyone he was a cowboy *eyeroll*

Anyway here are the cool little dressed up Boys ready to face Book Week!