Dinner with Dr.Seuss

So, as a next step in getting over my anxieties I decided I would try something really different. I bought my first tickets to an activity organized by some of the students at the school. There was a costume contest, so I thought of turning Serenity into a WHO or Green Eggs and Ham, but I didn't have the right material. But thanks to an amazing friend, she gave me a blue blanket and I got the idea for 1 fish 2 fish red fish blue fish.

It's kinda hard to see, but I made a hoodie like shirt out of the blanket and used velcro to close it and using pipe-cleaners, I made fins that kept their shape and added details to parts of the fins. I had a one and she had a 2 I was red and she was blue. I cut up an old red t-shirt into scale shapes and sewed them loosely on a red hoodie (already made) and added fins to my elbows and a dorsal fin to my back.

Unfortunately, I looked like one of the "Things" (red with a 1 on it can you blame them?), and there were soooooo many other "Thing 1 and Thing 2's" that I just blended in unless I kept Serenity with me at all times. We had a dinner of green eggs and ham, corn dogs (all the foods had Dr.Seuss-type names and I don't remember them all), Diced potatoes, peaches, rolls, Sneeches Salad. After we ate it was story time and Serena didn't want to sit still, so she found a ball and played her own rules. She made friends with all the big kids. Before we knew it, it was time to go and the costume award went to a thing 1 and thing 2 with blue hair.

The night was a disaster for me I couldn't get over the anxious feeling. But Serenity got a lot out of it... a corn dog (fav food), a balloon, a new favorite warmie coat that is soft like a blankey, and because I needed some shop therapy afterwards, I bought her a bunch of Blues Clues Books. It was fun, but I don't think I'm ready to do it again.