Future Day

Instead of celebrating Halloween at Lizzy's school, they have "future day".. yet another new thing we get to experience this year! So basically instead of wearing their Halloween costumes (which can be scary and inappropriate) kids dress up like what they want to be in the future. Some ideas that were suggested: principal, doctor, teacher, baseball player.

Lizzy thought long and hard about what to be and finally settled on a waitress. 

Big dreams (hey... I made some of the best money I've ever made when I waited tables in college!).

So I made her an apron and some Perkins notebooks. Lizzy made a tray full of food (taped onto a round cookie sheet -- totally her idea!). Then we went to Perkins to see if we could get any extra props. 

Lizzy: "Hi. My name is Lizzy. We're having future day at my school tomorrow and I want to be a waitress in the future so I was wondering if you had a tray or a name tag I could buy for my costume."

How could you resist that?!?! The manager was so sweet. She gave Lizzy two menus, a Perkins t-shirt, and even made her a real name tag!

I thanked her and said she'd be back in ten years for a job. The manager said, in a very serious voice, "she's hired!"

It is good to be Lizzy!

"Welcome to Perkins! My name is Lizzy and I'll be your waitress!"

Morgan is in training.

Authentic menus!

A good waitress is always prepared - Lizzy has
a pocket full of pens and straws!

Ready to take your order!

Lizzy's special!

The Flower

As promised, here's the book Lizzy wrote yesterday... 
Love her spelling!

The Flower -- by Lizzy

One day a seed fell from the sky. As days past, the little seed grew bigger
and bigger. It grew bigger until....

It was bigger than a skyscraper.
But when it was winter, the flower died.

The End.

She is currently working on her second book... titled "The BB Gun" and has decided she only wants to be a writer, not an illustrator :)

Lizzy-isms are now on Facebook!

A few months ago I asked you, Lizzy's followers, about starting a Facebook page. The response was great --- my little girl sure knows how to weasel her way into people's hearts :)

I debated for months, and tonight I finally decided to publish her Facebook page. You can find it here: facebook.com/Lizzyisms

It's not meant to replace this blog.. the blog will stay, because it's my running history of Miss Lizzy's funniest moment and someday it will be my guide as I write her biography :) The Facebook page is intended to enhance this page and to help me share her funnies faster (let's face it, updating a Facebook page is waaay easier to do on a cell phone than updating a blog... or is that just me?!?)

So "like" Lizzy-isms on Facebook, but keep checking this page too! There are plenty of Lizzy-isms to go around!

Picture Day

Me, after school when I realized today was picture day: "Did you have pictures today?"
Lizzy: "Yep. Why did you think I wore such a nice shirt?" (by "nice shirt" she means the top to her last year's Halloween costume).
Me: "Did you even comb your hair today?"
Lizzy: "Yep. It looked good. It was curly. Ok, not really curly. It was actually snarly, but I just pretended the snarls were curls."