Last week Dorian's school held their annual "Gallery Night". All of the kids in the 5th grade chose a famous person from history and of course Dorian chose Abe Lincoln. He has loved Abe Lincoln since the time he was little, not sure why but he has so many facts about Abe Lincoln it was a no brainer I suppose.
He did an awesome job on his presentation and I have to admit I did a great job on his costume since he waited until 10:01pm Wednesday night to tell me that he needed to dress like Abe. On my lunch break Thursday I ran to the party store and found the closest thing to an Abe Lincoln Hat, then rushed to the fabric store to buy furry black fabric for his beard as well as pipe cleaners to loop his beard over his ears. Last but not least, ran to Goodwill to get a black sports jacket. Total cost of costume...$13.56. Out of the 4 Abe Lincolns at Gallery Night, Dorian was the only one dressed like Abe. Woo hoo, way to go mom!! Toot toot (tooting my own horn) :)
Gallery Night at Philomath Elementary School
Mean while back at home, Taylor was getting ready for his Valentines Formal on Saturday night. His girlfriend Natalie was wearing a red dress so off we went shopping...I will spare you the details but I can tell you this much....formal shopping for a boy is just as much work as for a girl!! I thought we would never find the "right" shoes, tie, haircut. etc. but you get the picture. FINALLY at last, we found everything we needed.
