Fancy Nancy Week

This was by far the highlight of the summer--Fancy Nancy Week!!!!!!  Most of the week was spent preparing for the party.  But we did fit a few more fancy things in.  Monday was manners day.  On the kitchen table, I put a teacup full of slips of papers with the 25 Manners Every Kid Should Know and we read one or two at every meal during the week.  We also played "The Manners Game" where at the start of a meal each person is given three skittles.  If you see someone using bad manners (like talking with mouth full or elbows on the table), you can take one of their skittles.  Wow, it worked like a charm and Allegra wanted to play for every meal (more likely because she has a sugar addiction like her parents!).

Saturday we had our own Ooh La La Beauty Spa Day.  We started off giving our dolls and ponies a much needed spa treatment.  Some of those ponies had not seen a sponge in 25 years!

Then it was the girls' turn to be pampered with banana and honey facials (compliments of Fancy Nancy) and cucumber eyes in Mommy's Princess bubble bath.  They also got a special hair conditioner treatment.

Pedicures and foot massages would have been included, but we ran out of time when the play room didn't get cleaned up.  Even Fancy Nancy has to clean her room!

While reading Fancy Nancy for the hundredth time this week, I was reminded why I LOVE LOVE LOVE this book!  Here's why:

• Nancy decorates her room herself, from what she has available.  Her mom does not order it out of Pottery Barn.
• She uses fancy words, not just kid words.  All kids can have a large vocabulary--we just have to make it available.
• No one in her family is fancy (I feel like her very un-fancy mom).
• It's the little things in life that make it exciting--lace-trimmed socks, frilly toothpicks, and sprinkles!
• She takes the initiative and teaches a class for her family on how to be fancy. ( I totally would have done that when I was little!)
• Her family goes along with it and goes out fancy in public! What a loving family!
• Nancy has impeccable manners--merci!
• When Nancy slips and drops the parfaits, her parents don't buy her more, they go home and make their own.  Even frugal can be fancy.
• "All I say back is 'I love you" because there isn't a fancy--or better--way of saying that." 

'Nuff said.


Books we read:
Nancy Clancy, super sleuth (Aurora loved it so much, she read it in one sitting!)
Come to tea! : fun tea party themes, recipes, crafts, games, etiquette, and more 
Fancy Nancy : tea parties 
Fancy Nancy: Tea for Two 
Fancy Nancy : bonjour, butterfly  (great one about the importance of families)
Table manners : the edifying story of two friends whose discovery of good manners promises them a glorious future  
Fancy Nancy and the mermaid ballet (another great one about friendship and making the best of things that don't go your way)
Fancy Nancy and the fabulous fashion boutique (about earning money and doing kind things for your sister)
Fancy Nancy : Ooh la la! It's beauty day 
Fancy Nancy's Favorite Fancy Words
Fancy Nancy: Aspiring Artist 
Tea For Ruby (LOVE--different author (Sarah The Duchess of York Ferguson), same artist--about manners and grandmas!)