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Completely unclimatic but the pageant director emailed me to say that Lexi is the ONLY competitor in her age group so I assume that means she wins by default and will be going to state.  I don’t think I’m going to spend the money on getting her hair done this time.

In other really bad news, Emma is actually up a class than we thought and NO ONE can walk with her on stage.  She’s kind freaking out about it and so am I.  Emma is extremely shy and I was thinking this would be ok because I would be with her.  If she freaks out, then I can just pick her up and walk her the rest of the way.  I’m considering not sending the money in and cancelling her spot so no one has to push her on stage or pick her up from a shaking, crying heap on stage.  You never know though, Emma can be quite the entertainer at times (see previous post on HSM2 remix) and might do well.  I hate decision making!

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While Emma and I were at the church today, I let her “play” with one of the mics and recorded her.  Check out her High School Musical 2 remix.  Sorry about the guy at the beginning…I was too lazy to edit him out.

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So next Saturday I’ve entered my girls into a local pageant.  Their cousin was in it last year so we sort of know what to expect.  It’s very, very low-key.  Probably less than 100 people in the audience.  Probably 20 people in the whole pageant.  It’s done in the gym of a local elementary school.  No makeup is allowed and the dresses can even be Sunday School wear. 

Why am I doing this you ask? 

Well part of me thinks my girls are awfully cute and really hope they win.  Part of me wants to do it for their confidence building.  Neither of my girls are very good in large, new crowds and if they do this, I feel like that is a step in the right direction as far as getting in front of people.  I know I was always terrified of getting in front of crowds and after 5 speeches in college, I was doing much better and now I don’t even turn red sometimes.  And since this is such a low key pageant and not very expensive, I just want to see if they like it or not.  Pageants ARE a good way to earn scholarship money and I’m all for that. 

But ya’ll, those little pageant dresses get EXPENSIVE. As in one dress can be up to $750 when you get to the fancy stuff.  INSANE.  I went to a local boutique and they had Buy 1 Get TWO free and bought them matching pink silk dresses.  Lexi really did like the pink dress though once I showed it to her so I’ve borrowed my niece’s blue dress from last year and she seems into after my SIL pointed out that she’d look like Cinderella.  Why I even asked the two year old which dress she was going to wear, I don’t know. I  mean, really.  I should have just said, put this on! two minutes before going on stage.

I am going to have their hair done by a lady in my church.  Emma looked so cute when she did it for C’s wedding and Lexi has never had her hair curled in any way so I’m very curious as to how it will look.  The blue dress has some detail on the back so I don’t want to leave it all down, but I also want to show off her long hair. 

Yes, I know I could be one of those moms.

I’m very concerned that the pageant starts at 3pm, the exact time Lexi starts having a breakdown every day and refuses to take a nap.

So I’m thinking both girls can go either way with this.  They will get out on stage and be so proud of their outfits and hair and have a big smile on their face and wave to people in the crowd.  OR, Emma will have a complete shy moment and hide her head in my side on stage, possibly with tears in her eyes and Lexi will be crying about her dress she has on, rip out any hair bow she has in her hair, and then I’ll have to carry her around the stage, completely defeating the purpose. 

Let’s hope it’s the smiley, wavy stuff.

Tonight I have a picture to back up this one.  We were on the way to a birthday party and Lexi pipes up, “Daddy, it’s ok, Daddy’s, it’s ok.”  We look back and Lexi has taken a bite out of the birthday card which led to me saying:

“Lexi, you ate the birthday card! You don’t eat birthday cards, that’s not nice!”

These are all taken while Emma and I are playing doctor with Polly Pocket characters.  She was the dr and I was the nurse. 

Emma:  The dolls are falling down!  This is a silly situation!

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Emma: Put these high heels on.  She’s going to look so high-heely.

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Me: OK, dr, we’ve seen all our patients.  What should we do?

Emma: I don’t know

Me: I think we should go shopping.

Emma (coming out of character):  Uh, mommy, doctors don’t go shopping.

Me: Well then what should I do?

Emma: You should go arrange stickers.  Do you know what arrange means?  It means to put stuff out.

Me: Is that what nurses are supposed to do?

Emma: Yes

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Me: What is wrong with Polly, doctor?

Emma (out of character): um, mommy, what is wrong with her?

Me (out of character and with my hand on my chin): the flu

Emma: duhflu?

Me (laughing): No, the flu.

Emma: Can we just call it duhflu?

Me: Yes, that’s fine.

Emma (back in character): Ok, Polly has duhflu

S is over here and she disobeyed Scott and it was something that could get her hurt so Scott gave her a spanking (yes, we have permission from his sister to do so).  Lexi and Emma peaked around the corner where Scott was explaining to S why she was getting a spanking and Lexi says to Emma in a somewhat worried voice, “S is getting a spanking.”

So Scott and S walk out of the kitchen and Lexi says to Scott,

Daddy, be happy!