Our ballerina doll

Lillian had a full day yesterday. Her preschool asked if she could come to school on Friday (she usually is just there Monday-Thursday) to celebrate the fall festival. She had a blast in her tie-dyed orange pumpkin T-shirt, which she and the other toddlers had made a couple weeks before. They all got to go "trick or treating" around the building, to each other and all the other classes. Every kid brought 40 treats and shared one with every other kid. She was delighted with her personal haul!

After coming home and getting a good nap in, Lillian got ready to dress up for the evening. We had talked about her dressing as a Chiefs cheerleader (jokingly, we'd said with a paper bag over her head) or an Olympic gymnast. But when the time came to get dressed, she wanted to wear her dress-up tutu with anything, so we improvised and called her a ballerina doll.

Since she'd already done her trick-or-treating for the day, we went out as a family for the evening and did some early Christmas shopping and ate at Winstead's. We left candy in a bowl on our front porch with a sign inviting kids to take 2 each. Amazingly, when we got home, there actually were a few pieces left!

Lillian turns 3 in a couple weeks, and at that time, she'll be moving up to the full-scale preschool room. She loves it when she gets to go up to the bigger kids' classroom now on occasion, as the school prepares her for the transition. Many of her original classmates have already graduated to upstairs. It will be great for her, but I know she will miss spending time with her current teachers.