Clown Day

Today at Will's preschool is clown day. During the year they have many dress up days. They always have to do with whatever theme and letter they are working on for the week. This week is the letter (can anyone guess, I'll give you a hint, What does clown start with?) C. So yesterday they learned all about China (or at least what a 3-4 year old would understand.) They ate their snacks with chopsticks and talked about the great wall and lots of other things. Today all the kids got to dress like clowns and this morning Will was not thrilled with the idea. He is not much of a morning person. So when I woke him up and started to get out the clown outfit, he was not happy. "I don't want to dress like a clown Mom!" He said over and over. I told him he didn't have dress up if he didn't want to, as I continued to find all the accessories to the outfit and lay them out. He does this most mornings so I knew it was just a matter of time for him to wake up completely and want to dress up. After breakfast he says "O.k. Mom, I will dress like a clown." He looked so dang cute in his rodeo clown costume. (what other kind of clown would a kid in this family be?) When we got to school, the first three boys he saw were not dressed up and I could see Will getting a little tense. Then he saw his teacher, Mrs. Thompson. She was decked out in her clown outfit, (she always dresses up) and he relaxed a little. It wasn't until he walked into the class room and saw other kids decked out with the full clown make up that he was totally o.k.!