ScrumpyDaddy

Posted by Rachel

At first I was reluctant. I didn’t want Abby becoming too commercialized and only wanting items with Disney Princesses on them. I wanted her to accept things that were just generic, but alas I have succumbed to it. She loves it. She has been watching the movies and now has a Cinderella doll, princess jammies, and a princess bedding set. She is still willing to play with anything that looks like a princess, it doesn’t have to be only Disney princesses. She also loves to sing like Ariel.  She will walk around singing, “Aaaah, aaaah,” just like Ariel does when the sea witch takes her voice. She will tell you, “I am Ariel and you are flounder.” Or she will say, “Sing like Ariel,” and you must sing. She also knows all the main princesses by name and sight (Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Ariel, and Belle.) She also knows Tinkerbell, but I don’t consider her to be princess. She is a pixie.

This morning, we spent most of the morning playing with her Little People castle. She wanted the prince and princess to dance together and hold hands. It was so much fun. She has grown so much in the past year. She can now play creatively with toys and interact with them. The two dolls would talk to each other and she would move them around the castle. I, of course, had to play the prince, because Abby wanted the princess.

Also, during this playtime with the castle, she got out the picnic bench for the dolls. She said there were bugs around it. I asked her what kind and at first she said pink bugs, but then she changed it to bees. She said we had to get them away and spray them. It is great when kids use their own memories to play make believe. About a month ago we went to South Park for a picnic lunch and we tried several times to sit at picnic tables there. No luck. We ended up eating in our car because the bees kept following us. We had said at that time we wished we had bug spray to get them to leave. What a memory she has!