Russian ballet, princess inspirations, and dancing monsters

A couple weeks ago I got to cash in on one of my Christmas presents from my husband. He had gotten us a night out, dinner and tickets to the Russian Ballet. It was an awesome night. The ballet was "Giselle" and the peasant maidens all wore dresses with little aprons sewn in. That planted the seed in my mind. Then I was window shopping on Etsy and saw the cutest little Cinderella dress (the working dress, before the ball). The woman makes all kinds of beautiful Princess dresses for little girls, none of which I can afford though! But it also had the sewn in apron front. And that allowed the seed to take root and grow in my brain. See, I already had made baby girl a peasant top but it was a tad too short, BUT I thought if I added a skirt to it and made it a dress she could get more wear out of it and it would be a trial run for the Cinderella dress. Baby girl loves it and has wanted to wear it every day so far. Here she is in it:

Having a tea party with her friends in bed:


In the backyard:


And big boy came home from school wanting to make a monster puppet. Okay. I never made a puppet besides from an old sock so why not. It was fun. He piced the fabrics, the type of ears, eyes and tongue (it's unusually long, maybe we should name him Gene). Now we're listening to the cable music and making him dance. Not sure who's having more fun, me or the kids! Here's a clip, it was longer but Blogger has a 100 MG maximum, but you get the idea. Opps, for some reason Blogger won't upload my video clip :( I even cut it down to meet their requirements. Hmmph.  Well, I'll try again in a different post later on I guess.