Hakuna Matata

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Lately the girls just love playing dress up. They love all the princess characters like Cinderella, Snow White, Ariel, etc.....But funny how they have never watched the real fairy tale movies but they already like the characters. I tried to rent them some of the princess stories but they usually find some character in the story scary and want me to turn the movie off. We do have the Cinderella book which they want me to read them all the time. But the version I bought has Cinderella's father in it and he dies and leaves Cinderella to her stepmother. They are fascinated with this page. When I overhear them reading it to each other, they always say, man dies....just like ants. Clearly they don't understand. But they love this book, especially the page where the fairy godmother turns Cinderella's clothes into this beautiful ballgown. And the ballgown is flowy and white. So you can imagine how much they loved these dresses that they got for a birthday gift from James' sister. Usually beautiful dresses like these only get worn once to a special occasion but I think it will get daily use from my girls when they want to imagine themselves as princesses. The only mirror they can see themselves in is the one on my dresser. So they spent lots of time on my bed looking at their own reflections and having loads of fun.