ava and i unearthed a box of michaela's old dance recital costumes that i had put away until ava had grown a bit, as she was too small to really get much out of them when michaela first gave them to us. well, it does not take a genius to recognize that a box full of chiffon and sequins would be outrageously excting to a 3-year-old girl. she has had more fun with these things, and last night even slept with a blue chiffon skirt/cape like thing with gold sequins (actually, i think it was an egyptian-style headpiece, but ava prefers it around her waist) over her jammies. her current thing is to put on a red, one-shouldered, flapper style leotard with fringe and sequins plus the afore mentioned blue skirt thing and insist on 'dance' music, which is basically an old house-music cd of peter's. it is like going to a club. and then ava just explodes in a frenzy of movement. if the music is too slow, or not loud enough, she complains.

after a bit of that this morning, she announced that she needed to go pick some peas. so there she was, in the garden, in red and blue and gold sequins with a little basket. it was too funny.