Decades Day

This last week at school Mikkele has had school spirit week. Each day they got to dress up in a different way. Monday was crazy hat day, Tuesday was crazy sock day, Wednesday was crazy hair day, Thursday was sports day, and Friday was decades day. We had fun dressing her up each of these days, but I have to say the funnest day for me was decades day. We had originally wanted to do the 50's and have her wear a poodle skirt, but we couldn't find one. We ended up going with the 80's and I'm so glad that we did! I had so much fun reliving my childhood. We borrowed a shirt from Jeremy's aunt/cousin (Thanks Linda and Angie for your help!) , and then I let my memory take me back to the hideous decade of the 80's to accomplish the rest. I think it turned out great. She looked like a total 80's child.

Dont' you love the hair. Crimped hair, side ponytail, and the wave bangs...what more could you ask for. I tried to stack them and make them really tall, but she doesn't have enough bangs and they were a little long. I still think they turned out great.

The whole package. Did you ever make a spin paint shirt like this one? I remember having a book bag in the 6th grade that was similar. We didn't have one of those thingys that we used to put our shirts into, so we improvised with a hair elastic. I think it gives the same look. The skinny jeans that are coming back into style worked perfectly, although we could have just pegged her pants and it would have worked also. Yes, I know the socks don't even come close to matching, but that's the only pair of socks that we could find that weren't black or white. We had to have some color. Her skechers even look a little bit like the LA Gear shoes we used to have. We bought her some jelly bracelets at Wal-mart, but forgot to put them on for the picture. They really added quite a bit. The only thing we forgot was some big hoop earrings. That would have really been the finishing touch. But overall I think it turned out great.

The best thing is that Mikkele kept asking why we did the things that we did. "You really used to dress like this?" "You used to do your hair like this?" "You wore your socks like this?" "What is pegging your pants?" The questions went on and on. And the looks she gave me were priceless also. What a fun day to relive my childhood. Let's just not bring back the 80's. We really weren't cute.