Playing Dress Up

Cannon, Holland, Weston, Travis & Packer love to play the boy version of "Dress Up". Their idea of dress up is getting out the costume box and dressing up as Spider-man, Darth Vader, Power Rangers, Super Man, Batman, Rock Man, Lightning McQueen, Thomas the Train, Bobba Fet, Jenga Fet, Jedi Warriors, etc.

Their normal routine is that they put on parts from several different costumes (all at the same time) then they all parade throughout the house trying to get any willing participants to try and guess which of the 5 boys is beneath the assortment of costumes. This can go on for an entire afternoon...it entertains the boys for hours.

Recently, however, the boys have discovered a new game of dress up. The boys love to dress up Harper. The dress she is wearing in these pictures is their FAVORITE dress for Harper -- they think it is so cute since it is pink with so many ruffles and lace.

What you're not seeing in the pictures is when they dressed Harper up as a Football player -- helmet and all -- and then proceeded to shoot nerf darts at her. They have also dressed her up as the baby Jesus for their own version of the Nativity Scene (100% kid directed and performed...complete with Travis as Mary giving birth to a beautiful baby...fortunately Travis was strategically placed behind a sheet, but we got the birthing sound effects from exaggerated moans and groans made by Travis from behind the sheet).

Harper also starred in a play written and directed by the boys in which she was all wrapped up in a very special Christmas present. We had no idea she was wrapped up until out popped baby Harper.

So dress up has taken on a whole new meaning at the Brown house. We never know what the boys are cooking up. We always brace ourselves when one of the boys is sent in by the other 4 boys to ask "Can we borrow Harper for a minute?"