Lips

Ms. Crazy Preschooler is in the middle of an obsession with her lips. She adores chapstick, and is marveling in the fact that I've allowed her to be responsible for her own lip gloss application. (You would understand advantages of having her do this herself if you had spent two days applying chapstick every five minutes all day). Sometimes things get a bit greasy, but for the most part she does a pretty good job. The hardest part of the task seems to be keeping track of the lid for the stick.

Today Ms. CP attended a birthday party for one of her friends from preschool. I was not able to go because I was teaching during the afternoon, so another mom transported her to and from the party. She bounced back in the house with a little bag of party favors, and inside was a tube of play lipstick. It was flavored strawberry, and radiated a bright pink hue. The lipstick was actually in a little pot attached to a bracelet, and so all afternoon Ms. CP sat on the couch watching my students muddle through their music, wearing her bracelet, EATING the lipstick. Her entire face was covered in pink lipstick. She just kept her lips right in that little pot the whole time. I wish I could have grabbed the camera in the middle of lessons to snap a picture.