Lionel the Lion and Bulah the Bumble Bee

This morning we stayed home and played dress up. I was the tree fairy living in a tree castle with my baby bee and Josiah was the lion whose parents were away who came to live with us. After slumber parties and tea parties with the bee, it was time for her to take a nap in the uppermost branches (her crib). In the meantime the lion took care of the forest creatures, bringing many stuffed animals down to be fed and their wounds healed.
Later my children became frogs. Josiah and Ben were blue-eyed tree frogs off at school while the littlest tree frog slept on my lap. Josiah, still the Lion, drove the little red car to pick up the other frogs from school (imaginary since he was still the lion, and Ben was really at school).
By lunch time, he was Chester the cow, dressed in his Dalmatian costume with a cow mask we made a while back and I was Matilda the cat (no costume). We were married (pronounced dog and cat by a duck), had a wedding brunch (lunch), danced, and went on a cruise for our honeymoon. Shortly after we returned we adopted a baby butterfly (Gabriella).
Josiah is so much fun to play dress up with and I love how he includes his sister in our plays.
A while back, Josiah really wanted to play dress up and Ben wasn't in the mood and I was busy making dinner. After many pleas for us to join us he suggested a compromise. He went down and put on a costume and handed me a hat. "Here mom, let's pretend that I am a bat, and you are a fireman mom making dinner while holding a baby..."