Yikes...Oh No....Trouble.... My 3 year old daughter is a girly-girl, and for a hockey playing, sport loving, outdoor living, jeans and a T Mama, it is freaking me out! I am not talking about the odd princess dress and dolly-tea party. I am talking about, barbie houses, socks must match shirt, and won't get a hair-cut because she wants to be Rapunzel girly-girl. The other day we were in the hockey store looking for a new hockey stick for Dada. Daddy pointed out the cutest little hockey jersey, but was Lily impressed? No way, little girly-girl bee-lined right to the figure skating dresses and proudly declared to the lime green, sequined, bedazzled spandex dress,
" You are bootiful, I want to skate with you".
How could she do this to me? Barbie, the most horrible, miss-proportioned, high-heeled shoe wearing role model, and this is all she wants from Santa this year. What have I done? Where have I gone wrong? The other night while tucking her in she whispered to me,
"Mommy, you can be a princess too, you just have to let your hair grow longer".
I replied, " Princesses have short hair too Lily".
She replied, " Actually Mama....they 'don't".
It seems I have not read the 'How to be a Princess Rule Book' lately but she has it memorized. I guess raising a girly-girl is not that bad. She rips on the ski slopes, dives in head- first at swim lessons, and belts it out like Joni Mitchell when no one is watching. She is one independent, determined little person. In fact, this little girly-girl has the determination of the the toughest of dudes... 'Conan the Barbarian,...just in pigtails, bubble skirts, and matching ribbons.
'How to be a Princess Rulebook' by Lily Miller
1. Must have long hair ( messy and tangled is allowed);
2. Must have 1/2 dozen dresses of tu-tu, tulle, and sparkly variety (curtains work);
3. Princesses do not eat peanut butter;
4. Princesses cuddle at any opportunity;
5. Must have pony (plastic, stuffed, or family Labrador retriever may substitute for real thing);
6. Must spend portion of day trying to convert baby sister into 'princess in training program', and if that does not work...lock her in bathroom with lights off;
7. Mermaids are princesses of the sea and are tolerated.
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The whole princess girly-girl thing is abherrant and must be stomped out at once!
I don't know where she gets it from!
(Perhaps its from her Dad's side of the gene pool - sure he is an outdoorsy rugged hunk - but he IS an artist, too - I always suspect those artist types.)
Well, you just assert your non-princessy-girl dna she is her mother's daughter too afterall AND STOP ALL THAT PRINCESS NONSENSE AT ONCE!!!
Oh, by the way Terry, next time you come by for a visit do you want to take that puffy cinderalla blue gown and that sash of yours that I still have in the closet from when you were crowned Miss Teen Victoria Princess? I don't know what has happened to your tiara (I think you acrtually still have that and parade around in it wearing only your nightie and mucklucks while crevassing in Alaska - isnt' that how you caught Ken?)
Anyhoo the dress with all its' petticoats takes up a lot of room in the closet.
PS I will hold on to the pictures of you performing your Miss Teen Victoria Civic duties in your big gown and even bigger hair (it was the 80's after all) and the pageant programme of you. Will use them as blackmail to get more time spent with my lovlery lil and magnificent maiz.
Cheerio from the Little Princesses (and the big Princess too) Fairy God Mother
XXXXXXX OOOOOOOOO
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