super love

We've read Super Love countless times this week, a sweet story about a little girl who plans a wedding for her cat and her stuffed puppy. Unfortunately, the cat doesn't seem to want to cooperate. She sets up her stuffed animals to watch, decorates the aisle and is all set to be the flower girl, but her cat still doesn't want to participate. In the end, her dad comes home from work and her mom and dad get married again. It's adorable and Elsie apparently has been taking notes.

She woke up Friday and wanted to dress for her wedding. We spent a lot of time trying to figure out what she could use as a veil. I cut up a white kitchen garbage bag but she didn't like that. I suggested a white skirt, but she didn't like that either. Finally I suggested this fitted sheet, and that made the bride-to-be happy.

I got out my wedding album so she could see me as a bride and she poured over each picture.

Then we made an aisle and got the church all set for a wedding. Ivar said excitedly, "the wood box can be the dresser! Mom, why is there a dresser in the front of every church?" A sweet time to tell him about the altar table. Then he went upstairs and got all of his mini Bibles so we would each have a book in our hands for singing. Elsie insisted that "weddings are at night like Maddie" so we just had a rehearsal, waiting for the sun to go down for the real thing. It was also decided that Ivar would be the cotton ball boy, a new spin on the flower girl.

After supper we had the actual wedding, and the groom was very good to put a sport coat over his pajamas. It was family movie night, so we got out the video from our wedding to show the kids. Elsie was mesmerized. Mostly the kids were fascinated watching video of their cousins and aunts and uncles walking down the aisle from ten years ago. 

It was a sweet day of wedding fun. At one point, as Elsie trotted across the room in her cinderella high heels, I said to Rory, "don't blink. the real deal is just around the corner." And we both got teary.