Fancy Nancy comes to Pflugerville

We have recently become big fans of Fancy Nancy around here. I had never even heard of her until my mom came to visit and gave the first Fancy Nancy book to Rachel for her birthday. It was a huge hit.

I used to only see Rachel's girly side once in a while, but Miss Nancy has definitely brought out Rachel's inner "fancy".

Here are Elizabeth and Rachel dressed up like Fancy Nancy:





Rachel loves the way her fancy shoes sound on the tile. When she dresses up like Fancy Nancy, she likes me to call her "Rachey Pachey":



Elizabeth has always loved being fancy, and is thrilled that now there's a whole book about it. She prefers to just be called "Fancy". She thinks that's Nancy's first name:

Fancy Nancy: A Reading by Rachel Mott

Here is Rachel "reading" from her new book. I was impressed with how many of the words she actually remembered. (Yes, I am still giving her reading lessons, but no, we are not quite to this level. This is pure memorization):

A little Fancy Nancy dance. But first, a few points:

1) My favorite part is when Lizzy says to Rachel, "Rachey, make sure you don't touch the TV!", and then to me, "Mom, I made sure Rachey don't touch TV!". We recently got a new TV and had a little talk about how the kids should never touch it, and Elizabeth has taken it upon herself to be the TV police. Before Henry was born, she always told me about how when the baby came out of my tummy, she was never going to let him touch the TV. She has kept it very safe.

2) Will somebody please teach my children how to dance?




And the fancy dancers kick it up a notch:

Poor Lizza had to deal with a lot of wardrobe problems. Notice the switching of the shoes at some time during the clip. Lizza never really recovers from the shoe issues, but Rachel kept right on dancing. Or whatever that is she was doing.