In early October, it started to rain, and Mom got out the rain boots. Maria insisted on trying them on right then, "So what if I'm wearing footed pajamas, Mom?" She added a lovely necklace to make quite the outfit.

It's a good thing Maria practiced dressing up, we had a Birthday to celebrate!

Then we decided to practice dressing up with the firehat. For reasons known only to Maria, she dresses up in the fire hat and then takes her dogs for a walk!

And after all that dressing up - it was time to UNdress!