Monday was "comfy, cozy, lazy day," where the kids were supposed to wear sweats to school. Tuesday was "red shirt and blue jeans day" in honor of "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish." A whole school full of kids in red shirts--it was a Star Trek fan's worst nightmare. Wednesday was "tip your hat to reading day," where (for a $1 donation to the library) kids could wear a hat to school.
Thursday was "dress like your destination day." My kid talks about going to 2 places that have distinctive appearal: the beach and outer space, and since I wasn't sending her to school in a bathing suit when it's 40 degrees out, we got to make an astronaut costume. (White pants, white T-shirt, and a couple of astronaut mission patches from the gift shop at the Space and Rocket Center. There was a tutu, too, but that was left at home due to too much glitter.)
Then there was Friday. Friday was "dress like your favorite challenging and innovative (but teacher pre-approved) vocabulary word day." I get it. The school is pre-k through 6th grade, so things have to appeal to a wide age range. But I really think this was a bit extreme for my 3-year old. Thanks to the crowd sourcing awesomeness of FaceBook, Addy picked the word "constellation."
So, after a trip to WalMart to buy yoga pants, a red shirt, a white shirt, white pants, a black shirt, and star buttons, not to mention the trip to the gift shop at the space museum (which, for the record, we were already planning to go to last weekend, regardless of the school costume situation), we were set.
Yay.
