Astronaut (with catbutt)

[nanila]

Humuhumu in an astronaut outfit, with Telstar.

Meant to post this on Caturday, but there was no time, what with the parkrun and going to look at bicycles and gardening and general parenting of one very active toddler and one baby who's just learnt to crawl and has markedly more suicidal tendencies than his sister, including a blatant disregard for the spikeyness capabilities of the cat.

There was a dress-up day for charity at Humuhumu's nursery last week. Every girl in the toddler room was a princess.

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[happydork]

Possibly the cutest thing I have ever seen!

[nanila]

Yay! It may be a bit of a spoiler for next Saturday, I'm afraid. :D

[happydork]

I was hoping it might be! :D

[omnipotent]

She is so cute, and Telstar's socks are cute too! That's cool that she got to be different from the other girls. She seems like such an active child (going from previous photos you've shared) that I imagine wearing a princess dress wouldn't do for her anyway.

one baby who's just learnt to crawl and has markedly more suicidal tendencies than his sister

This probably wasn't meant to be funny but I laughed anyway. Hopefully Telstar will teach Keiki without it being TOO painful for the latter.

[nanila]

She's very active, you're right. Even more so now that she can see properly. She does love wearing dresses, but they have to have minimal frippery. Anything with tulle or ribbons and she's out of there.

Telstar's definitely holding back on the object lesson. He's scratched the baby very lightly (baby was so not fussed), but I'm sure at some point he'll decide Keiki's big enough to learn.

[aella_irene]

Aww, that is adorable.

[nanila]

I'm so looking forward to seeing her wear the outfit again this weekend!

[cosmolinguist]

I swear the glasses help her look even more astronaut-ish, somehow. :)

[nanila]

I agree. When she concentrates she looks like a miniature adult.

[kate]

OMG!!!! RIDICULOUSLY CUTE!

[nanila]

\o/ YESSSS

I MISS MY CUTIE

[rmc28]

So adorable!

Also, is it second babies or something? Nico has way less fear/sense than Charles did at same ages.

Nico has ALL the Frozen clothes, so is bending stereotypes the other way.

[nanila]

It must be a factor, being second. Keiki is constantly trying to emulate Humuhumu, even when it puts him in terrible danger.

And go Nico! I have another friend with a son who loves dressing in "girl" costumes. He's six and is already aware he's breaking a social norm. It's great.

[cmcmck]

All those princesses?

It says a lot about a lot of parents rather than their kids, so go you and go Humuhumu! :o)

[nanila]

Lots of princesses. Frozen is a huge thing with that age group - Humuhumu hasn't seen it and doesn't seem to care (phew).

[hano]

Awww. *So* much better than a princess dress. Love Telstar's photo-bomb as well. That cat's got class...

[nanila]

His sense of timing is impeccable.

[lark_ascends]

<3 for the photo.

*snorts at Keiki*

[nanila]

:) Keiki has a lesson to learn at some point, but I think Telstar is holding off until he's a bit bigger.

[silveradept]

Well-costumed.

I wonder how many of those princesses were actively being rewritten to be characters suiting the nature of the young children, rather than hang the young children trying to emulate the characters.

[nanila]

That's an interesting option. As my own and her small acquaintance are not interested in princesses, it's difficult for me to tell!

[silveradept]

It is at least better that the princesses of our day are slowly improving to the point where wanting to emulate one is not a problem of feminism.

[forthwritten]

Incredibly cute!

[nanila]

Looking forward to seeing her in the outfit again this weekend!

[weaverbird]

She is the cutest thing EVER.

(And Keiki will learn respect for Telstar soon enough. *g*)

[nanila]

She showed up on Skype this evening with my rucksack saying, "Look, Mummy, I'm wearing your bag!" B'awww.

Yes, I think Keiki has a spikey lesson to learn soon. He's already been scratched lightly once and not been bothered at all.

[askygoneonfire]

Her glasses transform this outfit from 'cute dress up' (as I recall viewing it previously) to 'get out of my way, I'm a professional astronaut and I have to do something important'.

Plus Telstar adds a certain "giant space monster" element.

[nanila]

Heh, yes, the glasses make her look very serious.

The giant space monster is currently practising his lounging behind me on the spare room bed.

[whereisirisnow]

This is so cute! And she looks so knowledgable!

[nanila]

The outfit was a big hit at the space wedding. :)

The glasses make her look so serious when she's concentrating.

[whereisirisnow]

I can imagine!