I was SO PROUD of Trixie on Sunday: We were at a classmate's "Cinderella" party at Puppetworks, and almost all the other girls had brought their princess dress-up clothes with them to wear at the party. But we, well, we had just gotten out of the car after a four-hour drive from my grandmother's house and I forgot to bring a dress for her.
Did she freak out and have a tantrum? No.
She asked if I had a dress for her, and when I confessed that I didn't, she thought about it for a minute and then said, "That's OK, I can be Prince Charming!" And she was! She played Prince Charming for the entire room full of princesses, because the boys at the party were busy pretending to be monsters.
My friend, the mother of her BFF, was in awe, and said that the BFF would have had a full-on wig-out over the missing princess attire.
I'm proud of Trixie, not only for being flexible with the available gender roles, but mainly because she was totally able to roll with a set-back that many people, myself included, would have felt sad or embarrassed about. My little girl rocks.
"pretending?" So sorry about your recent losses
Posted by: ellin at April 16, 2008 01:53 PMThat's because she's the daughter of one of MY awesome little girls! Way to go, Trixie!
BTW, what's a BFF?
Posted by: Sandra at April 17, 2008 06:10 AMBFF = Best Friend Forever in girlie slang.
She's still enjoying playing Prince Charming -- so much that when she wanted a plastic sword from the toy store/hair-cut place, I said, "Sure" and bought it for her. After all, *I* own a sword, albeit a wooden one, so who am I to say no?
Still, there are some rules. If she ever hits anyone with it intentionally, away it goes, no matter the provocation.
Posted by: cori at April 23, 2008 04:05 PM