jillian, jillian, jillian jiggs...

...maker of wonderful, marvelous pigs. every christmas ted's great aunt sends the girls books. it's a tradition she has kept going for quite a while as i understand she used to send them to ted and his siblings as well. the girls absolutely love the books! this year, one of the books she sent was "the wonderful pigs of jillian jiggs".

it's about a little girl and her younger sister who make "millions and zillions" of pigs to sell. of course, she adores the pigs and finds that she can't part with them in the end. for the past few weeks this has been the bedtime story of choice. the girls became really excited at the prospect of nona making piggies for them! (there are directions for making a pig in the back of the book). so, today my mom, the girls and i headed out to the craft store to buy materials for pigs.

we decided to make the girls' pigs resemble them.

they were pretty excited about the pigs...

however, we won't be making millions and zillions of them!