I gave cow appreciation day a lot of flack this year, but in the end we still dressed up head to hoof, went out, ate free chicken, and had a great time.
My mom came with us and it was her first year to participate. She loved it as I knew she would.
Of course as I mentioned before it was Elle’s first year too! I had to get a photo of myself with my two youngest because the very first year we ever participated in cow appreciation day these were the outfits Z and SJ wore. She was 4 months old and Z was almost three in this photo from 7 years ago.
Now Elle is wearing the same dress at 8 months old and Ezie is wearing that same vest and pants at 3 years old! Sometimes I feel like I am experiencing my first few years of motherhood all over again with this combination. Especially when the older two are at school.
By the way, there is a story behind my silly costume. I ordered it from Amazon with the intentions of wearing it on cow day and also to have it as a character in the Three Little Pigs skit we did at Ezie’s 3rd birthday party.
Since it was a farm theme I dressed up like a cow for part of it. I had all the kids gather around for a story. I was the narrator of the story and I got 4 volunteers, which ended up being three grown men to play the pigs and my little nephew to be the big bad wolf.
As I told the story they acted it out and whenever I said the word “BLOW” (for blow your house down) the audience had bubbles that they would blow. So everyone was included and it was the cutest, funnest, best time. Really. I loved that party, and even though the costume thing at Chick-fil-A was kind of watered down this year I am still glad I got the cow costume.
Back to last Tuesday, here are a couple photos from after the festivities. I haven’t updated about Elle’s latest milestones, but she is crawling all over the place now.
She can even pull herself up to a standing position. I can’t believe how motivated she is to be on the move.
Or should I say on the Moooo-ve. Sorry, I can’t help my self.
Oh my gosh, too cute. I love this post! MOO!
Cute pictures:) and I know what you mean about reliving your first years of motherhood! Daily flashbacks! I think about that all the time. It’s so interesting to compare as all of our personalities have changed and I often wonder if Giselle and Henri will grow up to interact the same as the other two.
Yeah, you understand! I was just talking to my mom about the birthday video comparing the Jeremy and Natalie similarities. She said that you mentioned finding more things in common. There are several including having alternating genders. Not that many people have boy, girl, boy, girl (or girl, boy, girl, boy).