Oh What A Beautiful Morning.....

Cupcake woke up hungry around 6 this morning, so I fed her and then decided to enjoy the quiet peace of morning. I forgot how much I enjoy spending time alone in the morning. I had breakfast, a nice hot cup of chai tea, and then read my book and enjoyed SILENCE in my house for the first time in months. It was a beautiful thing.....and then The Princess woke up. OK, so much for silence! 

Cupcake went back to sleep after her bottle, so I had a couple of hours to spend alone with The Princess. It started to rain soon after she got up. I noticed it was a gentle rain (good for quiet walks) so I said, "Let's go outside and play in the rain!" Of course, she was super excited. At first we walked around using our umbrellas, but she soon ditched her Dora cover and was running around getting soaked. "Can I eat the rain?", she asked. Of course! You can do whatever you want when you play in the rain!

She finally decided that she had had enough so we came inside dripping wet. We ran to the bathroom and got The Princess into a warm bath. She played for a while and then I decided it was time to play "Beauty Salon".

You play 'Beauty Salon' a little bit like this:

1. Spray and Comb Hair while sitting in your 'salon' chair
2. Cut fingernails
3. Choose fingernail polish color
4. Paint fingernails, toes, or both - Then dry
5. Get dressed in fancy outfit - Preferably something with sparkles, glitter, sequins, jewels, etc.
6. Dry hair with 'salon' hair dryer and add accessories
7. Apply lipstick
8. Show Daddy how beautiful you are and spend lots of time admiring yourself  in the mirror

The finished product.

Lovely trimmed and painted nails.

Beautiful!

Not only is this a fun way to spend time with your girl, it's also a great way to get hair washed, dried, and combed AND fingernails trimmed (which is super hard if you have a child that won't sit still long enough to get all ten nails cut!).