Pink Day

Yesterday was "Pink Day" at our house. As the mother of a little girl, I find it difficult to think "Pink" without thinking of tacky, plastic "girl" toys, "Barbie" and "Disney Princess", yet, thankfully, we have none of these in our house (yet?). I'll refrain from going into a rant about pink overload and marketing to girls and instead go straight to a glimpse of what our "Pink Day" was really all about.

Here's E playing on the slide in her pink outfit:

The pink "piggly wiggly" hat is her favourite hat at the moment. It's crocheted and I bought it on etsy over a year ago. I was going to add a link to the shop, but it seems that either the seller is no longer making them, or is selling them elsewhere. The pants, top and jacket are all hand-me-downs from a friend. E has mostly hand-me-down clothes and a good chunk of them are pink. Evidently, she wears at least some pink most days. I have no problem with that. She's super cute no matter what she's wearing. ^_^. Comparatively, the only pink clothes in my wardrobe at the moment are my pajamas and some socks.

Aside from clothes, we have surprisingly few pink things around the house. We did manage to find a pink rubber duck, a pink tricycle and a giant pink teddy-bear. There are also a few pink blossoms in the garden.

For a pink themed craft, I cut out paper shapes (flowers, circles and 'petals') in different shades of pink. E had fun moving them around and making different patterns. After a while, I got out a glue stick for E to make a more permanent collage on a piece of cardboard.

Here's what she came up with:

As is E's style, a bit of extra colour was added with blue and green crayons and a bit of black pen. She's a mixed-media artist, didn't you know? I put it up on the wall and E still points to it and says "Flowers!". I guess she's proud of her work.

Unlike our blue cakes, our pink snack was quite healthy and free from added food colouring. We made berry smoothies with frozen raspberries, strawberry flavoured yoghurt and soy milk. I usually prefer my smoothies with more fruit and less yoghurt, but it was certainly more filling this way. E enjoyed it, even if she did pour half of it out onto a plate and try to eat it with a spoon. (It wasn't that thick). I guess she was just experimenting... There was a little bit left over, so I froze it in an ice-block mould along with some coconut ice-cream.

Part of the reason that I chose pink for our colour-themed day this week is that my new hair-dye finally arrived in the mail.
Here's me with my new, pink hair:

[Hey, Maple, you were right!]

My husband took a few days off of work this week, to be with us, and therefore had a couple of hours spare to colour my hair for me. :) E was a little mystified when she first saw it and kept saying, "Pink... Hair... Pink... Hair..." and wanted to touch it all the time. I found an episode of Lazytown for her to watch on tv to remind her that Stephanie has pink hair. (I didn't even have to point it out to her). She was okay with it after that. My hair is getting kind of long now, so I probably should have bought 2 bottles of dye. Mine certainly isn't as bright as Stephanie's (but hers is a wig - shh!).

-Polly