Saturday, October 20, 2007

She is now a PRINCESS!

Ok, yesterday Kelly for the first time showed me that she actually gave a darn about what she wears. This is a big change! She never really cared what I put her in... oh, sure after I would dress her and be saying, "oh, you look soooooo cute and sooo pretty in your new outfit!" she would (with some coaxing from mommy) go look herself over in the mirror and smile and be quite smitten with the image she would see. But she had not really made the connection between what she thinks looks cute and picking out her own clothes or shoes..... Until today!

A couple days ago, I had bought two costumes from a lady off of Craig's list. One very cute LadyBug costume and a Princess costume (complete w/wand!). I was thinking that this may be the last year that I get to pick what she is going to be for Halloween - a Lady Bug! I figured the princess one would get mileage for a while beyond Hallowen (once she actually started to get into "dress up", which I had noticed she had not yet!).

Well, I had taken out the LadyBug costume a couple times and excitedly said, "look sweetie, this is your LadyBug costume for Halloween!!!! Isn't it Cuuuuuttttee???". To which I rec'd a deadpan, I-don't-know-what-your-so-excited-about look back. However, when I pulled out the princess costume today, her eyes got as big as saucers and she squealed and ran over to me say "mommy, put oooonnn!" "mommy, put ooooonnnn"!!!! Naturally, I put it on her! And for the next hour she ran around the house, so excited she was almost hyperventilating! Gary & I were in awe as we watched our newly sprouted little "princess". She went from playing "baby" with Katie & Andrew last night:

.....to being a grown up little princess today.... literally!
Later today when we went to the park, she insisted on wearing her pretty patent leather pink dress shoes (with her black stretch pants and orange play shirt.) I guess this is just the beginning of my having to mention to whoever is looking sideways at her crazy outfits, "she dressed herself today"!!! That's my big girl!

3 comments:

Kathy said...

Oh, Babs! It's the beginning of a beautiful new era. I fretted everytime I dropped Tommy off at school wearing mismatched clothes or with socks that he hikes up to his knees. Then I took a moment to look at the OTHER kids and realized that they all look that bad! Just consider it a sign that you're a great mom - your little girl is showing her independence. Congratulations!

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Liam and Lucy said...

Right, the princess picture is very cute, but we want to see Miss Kelly wearing her pretty patent leather pink dress shoes with her black stretch pants and orange play shirt -- please!!!