This morning P let me sleep in a little and he got up with Caroline. I believe it was around 6:30 a.m., but it’s just too painful to think about.
Around 8:30, Caroline came running in the room yelling, “WAKE UP, MAMA! WAKE UP! IT’S TIME FOR CHURCH! WAKE UP!”, which is such a relaxing way to start the day, especially when I realized I had about twenty minutes to get both of us dressed and hope that the deep wrinkle that appears in my forehead every night would have time to disappear before we walked through the church doors. (It didn’t)
However, Caroline had already taken it upon herself to get dressed. This is what she had on.
While I admire her attempt to mix patterns, I’m not sure this is really working for her. Although the unbrushed hair topped by a baseball cap is a nice touch.
Here she is after she added a winter hat to fend off the 80 degree chill and I told her that as much as I loved what she had going on here, we were going to make a few changes.
Needless to say, she was not happy with my decision. I wonder how many more times I’ll see this look over the years?
Don’t answer that.
She let me know that I had “RUINED” her day, but I had an ace up my sleeve in the form of a cute new outfit from CWDKids that she’s been dying to wear.
So the four of us headed out to church. P, Caroline, me and my wrinkle.
There will be no photos of the wrinkle.
When I picked her up from Sunday School, they handed me what seemed to be a paper grocery bag and explained they had talked about Joseph’s coat of many colors.
That’s Caroline in Joseph’s coat of many colors, which is so weird because I never realized they had an HEB.
The irony is that I didn’t let her wear her original outfit to church because I was afraid she looked like a bag lady.
If only I had known.
Hilarious! I was just thinking today as we were coming home from church that I can’t imagine what people must think of my 3 1/2 yr old daughter. She’s always seems to come out of the house a little disheveled and mismatched. Oh well. I have to remind myself that despite the crazy clothes and funky hair, my daughter knows she’s loved. –Even if I have a hard time being seen with her! 😉
-Ruth
p.s. I usually hesitate to comment on your blog, even though I subscribe to it, because it usually has sooo many comments on it! I LOVE IT though!
Caroline is a little eclectic for me but I love your choice, so cute! Do you make her hair bows yourself? My girl needs some bows like that!
Ha I love it! I always learn something biblically new here, like HEB’s impact on the coat. Too funny!
She’s the prettiest and sassiest looking bag lady girl I have ever seen. I love her new outfit, especially with the bows–very cute!
I remember making a similar coat of many colors when I was about her age. Only, I think I did mine with stripes.
It only makes sense that there would be an HEB, they had to have somewhere to store up all that food for the 7 years of famine. All kidding aside, I love HEB. I feel sorry for the rest of the country for not being able to run to the corner to the local HEB.
Although, we narrowly avoided a meltdown in HEB the other day when the cashier was out of buddy bucks. Luckily, she whipped out a ribbon of “Thanks for shopping at HEB” stickers and gave my daughter a strip of about 6 of them. By the time we covered the 40 feet from the door to the car, she had them plastered all over her front.
very cute story!
and hey..if you can’t find your keys, they are hanging in the door lock 🙂
Just a helpful reminder.
Happy Lord’s day.
Kelly S. in MI
I think she was going for bag-lady chic. Coming soon to Target from Isaac Mizrahi.
I’m tellin’ you some days I feel like we are living parallel lives. My Caroline comes up with some of the wildest outifts & just cannot understand why I don’t want to go grocery shopping with someone who looks like they got dressed in the dark! I’m trying to relax about it a little bit because I do want her to feel like she can express herself, but it’s not going all that well.
That girl is cute as a button and I love that outfit from CDWKids. And those cowgirl boots just top off the outfit. So cute.
That is such a cute craft for the coat of many colors. I can’t help but think of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer was wearing the coat from the Broadway play and that scene where he walks down the street at the end and then gets arrested. My dh dies laughing every time that rerun comes on. It is so hard to believe Seinfeld has been off the air for so long.
I’m a little bitter (wink-wink) over the “80 degree chill” comment as all we have here in the North East is a NEED for winter hats and the sort. BOOOO!
She’s a cutie though. I can tell she would be great friends with my Kylee who also loves to mix and match… so long as the bottom is a skirt that is. :0)
Her first outfit was of the Lord! She would have made the Bible story come alive in her class.
And this reminds me…Dolly Parton…you know she has a song about her coat of many colors…and she’s got a new album out…it’s called “Backwoods Barbie.” Only Dolly…
Now, I know you follow People magazine enough to know that Mary Kate has made the look very hip and cool. It’s amazing that millions of dollars can make you look like you are homeless. I had the opposite problem yesterday. I dressed my daugther in a cute dress which she spilled a little spaghetti sauce on at lunch. We go to church on Sat. night and when my dad came to pick us up, he insisted that she change cause she couldn’t go to Sunday school (Sat school?) with sauce on her shirt.
Soon you will pick your battles. Attitudes and Actions will be so much more important the clothes and clean rooms. Enjoy picking clothes while you can!
She’s adorable in the outfit, bag and all 😉
That C and her pigtails. Gets me every single time.
all the way fabulous transformation 🙂
I taught the 4 & 5 year old class today at my church, and we made those same paper bag coats! But we were smart enough to decorate over the logo. 🙂
so so funny. I always get a kick out of her outfits.
I’m in desperate need of some new sunglasses and I thought, “hey, I should ask Big Mama what’s the hottest style for this summer.” And then I remembered the Nicole Richie sunglasses and thought, “never mind.”
too funny!!!!! 😉
The spirit was obviously giving her a vision this morning. And you know the Bible says, “When they people have no vision, they perish.” Or in this case, buy perishables.
The pink cowboy boots MAKE the outfit!
Memorize that look.
Like a fine wine, it betters with age.
In fact, I’m willing to let you see first hand for the price of a plane ticket.
No really- I’m kidding.
No.
Wait.
Actually, no, I’m not.
I’m just letting you know that I would be willing to fly to Texas to babysit Caroline. She makes my heart so happy, not to mention the fact that I am in need some solid fashion advice.
And those pink boots indicate to me that she might be just the girl to help me. 🙂
Caroline,
Orange and pink are your colors, girl!
Fabulous!
So funny.
My daughters, age 10 an 8, now spend longer than I do in choosing their clothes for Sunday School and Church.
I try to explain that God cares more about whats on the inside in their hearts, but they seem the KNOW that God likes matching accessories too.
I love that look on her face in the second picture! Priceless!
LOL! Love that CWD Kids outfit. So cute. (and the ribbons…oh my)
My daughter picked out her outfit for dress down day Friday at kindergarten and wore a too small ivory shrug sweater over a white blinged out butterfly t-shirt. I kept trying to talk her out of the sweater. Sigh… 😉
p.s. yesterday before church I caught her applying Barbie play eyeshadow about 5 minutes before we were supposed to leave
that’s funny about having an ace up your sleeve like that – I need to remember that for ~K~
I am lovin’ this kid!!! PLUS – added bonus – I consider this training for when my girls start determining when I ruin their days!!! Now, my daughter is four and no girly-girl by any means… which means I still get to choose the clothes (except, her socks can NOT be folded or rolled in any way whatsoever, they must be “open and squished down” … which reminds me of how I wore my socks in the eighties – although, to date, she only wears one pair at a time!!!
I swear that your Caroline and my Susannah share a soul.
This really makes me think of Jared. I really need to send you the picture of him in gray sweats, yellow t-shirt, black cowboys boots, straw cowboy hat, and green pacifier. Classic!
LOVE the Doodle stories. You really don’t want to know how many times I’ve implored poor mr. f5 to get off the couch and come look at the computer to see what Caroline’s been up to.
Sometimes I suspect our husbands secretly wish that Blogger had never been invented.
ANYHOO. I have a matter of grave importance to discuss with you: yes, I am speaking of the deep forehead wrinkle that greets us bright and early every morning.
Do you know about (whispering) the Frownies? They’re little adhesive tabs that you PLASTER ON YOUR FACE to prevent you from frowning during the night.
If you’re blessed with a husband who routinely falls asleep before you do, or, better yet, suffers from extreme nearsightedness, you can sneak a little Frownie onto your forehead before you go to bed and no one will ever be the wiser.
And the deep wrinkle will trouble you no longer.
However, if you have children who rise before dawn, tiptoe across the house and into your room, and awaken you by bellowing, “MOMMY, WHAT’S THAT THING ON YOUR FACE?!”
Well, then, you’re totally busted.
She is quite the character, isn’t she? Oh, and the look….oh yeah, get used to it 🙂
I love the outfit! I have a few kids that like to dress themselves also and it is quite entertaining!
By the way, I the sister of Discovering Liz.
It might have been great fun to let her go to church with you, dressed as she was, watching while everyone tried to be polite – and from her Sunday School costume, she would have only looked dreadful for half the time you were there, the other half would have been covered up in that oh so lovely coat.
I thought I was the only one that got the wrinkle in my forehead when I slept. Thank goodness I found your blog!! Caroline is beautiful, and I must say I kinda liked the look of the first outfit. My kids are now 14, 15, 17, and 18, and every time we look at old pictures, they have a fit about how I could possible dress them (especially the boys) in ::gasp:: plaid shorts and collar shirts. Today, I have one that wears pants that look like he’s constantly had an accident in them (15), one that insists he still needs adult small shirts because they show off his “guns” (17), and one who must wear black from head-to-toe on Fridays (14). Then there’s my girl, who’s always cute as a button…who came home with a belly button ring 3 weeks ago. ::sigh::
I’ve been catching up on some of your posts. I love your sense of humor and writing skills! I can SO relate to this one. I have pictures of both my daughters in outfits of their own creation where you just have to say WOW! Caroline looks cute even as a bag lady.
I did this with my Sunday School class about 3 years ago!! But, I had the kids put streamers of all different colors!
I just thought it was too funny not to comment that the Holy Spirit would give us all the same ideas!! Love it!!